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The speech of 1,048 children between the ages of 31 and 54 months was screened for the presence of velar and palatal forms of the phonological process of fronting. Sixty-seven children, 6% of the sample, were identified as exhibiting the fronting process. Velar fronting was found to occur more frequently than palatal fronting. All 67 children were observed to front velars; however, only 44 fronted palatals. In no instances were subjects observed to front palatals in the absence of velar fronting. In the speech of 23 subjects, velar fronting occurred in the absence of palatal fronting. A breakdown of the incidence of fronting arranged in four consecutive 6-month age groupings is included, incidence ranged from 23.3% for the youngest group (31–36 months) to 3.5% for the oldest (48–54 months).

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