Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
Japanese speakers' perception of English consonants
Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
Japanese speakers who learn English as a second language later than childhood often have difficulty in accurately hearing and producing the consonants /r/ and /l/. While Japanese has one liquid phoneme, /r/, usually realized as an apico-alveolar tap [ɾ] and sometimes as an alveolar lateral approximant [l], English has two: rhotic /r/ and lateral /l/, with varying phonetic realizations centered on the postalveolar approximant [ɹ̠] and on the alveolar lateral approximant [l], respectively.
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