Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
>
> My R in Ikanirae Seru is a bit undecided too, wavering
> mostly between and approximant [r\] and a tap [4], but
> that can be explained that it's a language with
> phonology drawing on Japanese, which has [4],
I'm pretty sure Japanese has [l\], not [4]. At least that's what I was
taught ("try to pronounce a d, r, and l all at once") and what I hear.
> spoken
> mostly by native speakers of North-American English,
> which has [r\]. I think in my speech at least, it
> seems to be settling on [4]. Or maybe not.
[4] seems to be what a lot of native anglophones end up with.