Re: Mutable R's
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 12:27 |
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Garth Wallace wrote:
> 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.
Before high vowels, it sometimes sounds almost like [d,] to me. I'm not
sure if that's an illusion, or if it actually does have a tendency to
become a stop in that environment.
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