Abstract
This chapter focuses on the special status of coronals in aphasic and normal speech errors. Coronals are replaced by consonants of other places of articulation more often than labials and velars. They are, with laryngeals /?/ and /h/, the most frequent epenthetic consonants. Word-initially and intervocalically are syncopated more often than are velars and labials. Moreover, they are the only consonants clearly transparent to the vowel harmony processes. Coronals of the first subclass assimilate to labials more frequently than coronals of the second subclass. Coronals /t, d, n, 1, r/ are used as epenthetic consonants significantly more than both /s, z/ and /∫, ℨ/ in the word-initial and the intervocalic positions. The special behavior of coronals in speech errors is consistent with the proposal that they have no Place node in their underlying representation. More data are needed to verify whether anterior fricative coronals also lack an underlying Place node.
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