Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology
| From: | SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 30, 2001, 11:37 |
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--- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> 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
I think both of you may be right: there are only
certain times when the Jpn trill those r's, and I've
encountered that to be when upset (or doing a
gangster-ish impression). I know that in keigo
(polite Jpn) the r becomes quite soft and close to l.
I'll ask one of my friend here...
Matt
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