Flapping in American English

[Carolyn Chaney]

I'm interested in the flapping question too, so I hope you'll post a
summary of replies.

Carolyn Chaney

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Hiromi Morikawa wrote:

> I am posting a query on behalf of someone who is not on Info-CHILDES.  A
> direct reply to Tomomi will be much appreciated.  But I'd also be happy to
> forward any replies to her.  Thank you in advance.
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> Hiromi Morikawa
> Research Associate
> Life Span Insitute / Child Language Program
> University of Kansas
> hiromi at ukans.edu
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> I am now reserching Japanese child's phonological acquisition and
> would like to know about the AE voiced dental-alveolar flap /r/
> in order to compare to that of Japanese /r/.
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> It is well-known fact of English that both /t/ and /d/ undergo a rule of
> flapping where each if produced as /r/.
> I would like to know when American children determine the surface form /r/
> is the surface neutralisation of two phonemes.
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> The reason that I want to know about AE flapping is that Japanese /r/ is
> very similar to that of AE flapping /r/, and Japanese children tend to
> substitute /r/ to /d/ or vise virsa. If I could find some ideas on the
> acquisition of 'flapping' in American English, that will be very supportive
> for developing my argument on the acquisition of Japanese /d/ and /r/.
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> If you have any idea, I would be very pleased if you would reply me.
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> I cannot find any reference at all in England....
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> Many thanks,
> Tomomi Utsunomiya
> tomoutsu at hotmail.com
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