Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

D Tse wrote:


>You know, someone played the Evangelion theme by force to me (I used to be
>sooooo obsessed with it, I even knew the whole theme by heart at one time,
>I'm definitely not any more :) and I noticed that Japanese <r> has allophone
>that sounds horribly like /l/! The singer uses it more than once and I'm
>certain that's what it sounds like! Though I've never heard it in speech...
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.


Marcus Smith

Unfortunately, or luckily,
no language is tyrannically consistent.
All grammars leak.
                -- Edward Sapir

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