Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Marcus Smith wrote:

> The Japanese speaker I worked with on the phonetics of the language often
> pronounced <r> similar to [l] when it was before <o> or <u>. I've talked to
> other people who have worked on the language but haven't noticed this. So
> maybe there is a lot of speaker variation.
Funky.  On Rurouni Kenshin, the seiyuu for Sagara Sanosuke *sounds* like
he's almost trilling his r's, but the others don't.  I must listen more
carefulliy next time I go to anime, not that it's exactly the best of
samples, but it's better than nothing.

YHL

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