Japanese Speakers Learning R And L
Japanese possesses one liquid consonant, a flap that varies between lateral and central . English has two: an alveolar lateral approximant /l/ and rhotic consonant of varying phonetic properties centered around . Japanese speakers who learn English as a second language later than childhood often have difficulty in hearing and producing /l/ and /r/ accurately.
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