Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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