Type and frequency of phonemic errors in aphasics

The research, performed on 80 Romanian-speaking aphasics showed that the frequency of various types of phonetic errors is quite different in various languages, as presented in aphasiologic references. In our study the main phonemic errors were in the order of their frequency as follows: omissions, substitutions and additions of phonemes. The other types of errors appeared rather infrequently, in decreasing order: targeting (tir à la cible phonématique), order reversing, misplacing, repeated phonemes, preservation of phonemes of previous words. It must be underlined that for English-speaking aphasics some authors observed that substitutions are the most frequent phonemic errors but some others considered that additions are more frequent than other types of phonemic errors.