TY - JOUR AU - Slawinski, E.B. PY - 1993/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Perception and production of syllable-initial English [r] and [l] by English and Japanese speakers JF - Canadian Acoustics JA - Canadian Acoustics VL - 21 IS - 3 SE - Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada DO - UR - https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/767 SP - 45-46 AB - As the Japanese language does not have a contrast between [r] and [l] in prevocalic position, these sounds are very difficult to be discriminated, both perceptually and productively, by Japanese adults, Japanese speakers, unlike native English speakers, do not perceive a synthesized [r-l] continuum categorically, and they do not make a distinction between those two sounds productively (Yamada and Tohkura, 1990). This study investigated how native speakers of Japanese, who are living in Canada for many years, perceive and produce Canadian English ER -