Most Japanese speakers not only don't distinguish between English " r " s and " l " s, but reduce both sounds ( as well as flapped " d " and " t " sounds ) to their native alveolar lateral flap.
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Syllables may be vowel only, consonant-vowel, or consonant-- vowel . is a lateral approximant initially, a lateral flap between vowels and after most consonants ( " country " ), but a central tap after alveolars ( " blood " ).
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Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap, such as Japanese, actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.
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It's confusing because the Japanese alveolar lateral flap is romanized with an " r ", even though it is much closer to a non-veralized " l ", though it is really close to neither, and should be ( and is ) thought of as a unique sound.
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The Japanese sound usually transliterated " r " in names like " Hirohito " is an alveolar lateral flap, which has some characteristics in common with European " l " sounds and some in common with European " r " sounds .-- tTk ) 12 : 02, 19 January 2006 ( UTC)
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