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Re: Mutable R's

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 8:05
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.

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