The paper presents a few observations concerning the pronunciation of the prepalatal consonants by pre-school and school children (between 6 and 8 years old). It was found that the realization of the sounds in question is unstable in children’s speech. Both: palatal and palatalized pronunciations of the phonemes /ś ź ć/ were noticed.
The paper presents a few observations concerning the development of child’s speech in the context of phonetic realization and phonological status of the so called soft counterparts of the velar stops in such words as: kiedy, kieszeń, węgiel, ogień in the Standard Polish. Generally speaking, collected data are ambiguous.
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