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Re: Accent



Robin Turner wrote:
> AFAIK Japanese (and maybe Cantonese, but the other way round)
> are the only people with the r/l problem, which they would
> encounter learning just about any foreign language.

Oh, there is no shortage of languages with a single /l / r/
phoneme (when there is only one, it doesn't really make much
sense to ask whether it is /l/ or /r/).  Apart from Mandarin,
Cantonese, Japanese and Korean, there's the entire Polynesian
family; remember Hawai`ian _Mele= Kali=kimaka=_ `Merry Xmas'?

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