Hello there,
Is there any Chinese dialect/language that actually has [l] and some kind of r (e.g. [r], [ɹ], [ɻ]) as allophones of the same phoneme, either in complementary distribution or as free variation? Or is the confusion of English /r/ and /l/ merely because one of the two is lacking in (some?) Chinese dialects/languages? I saw Mandarin has /l/ as well as /ɻ/, which corresponds to the pronunciation of English /l/ and /r/. Does this mean that speakers of Mandarin do not conform to the stereotype of mixing up English /l/ and /r/? Thanks very much!
Is there any Chinese dialect/language that actually has [l] and some kind of r (e.g. [r], [ɹ], [ɻ]) as allophones of the same phoneme, either in complementary distribution or as free variation? Or is the confusion of English /r/ and /l/ merely because one of the two is lacking in (some?) Chinese dialects/languages? I saw Mandarin has /l/ as well as /ɻ/, which corresponds to the pronunciation of English /l/ and /r/. Does this mean that speakers of Mandarin do not conform to the stereotype of mixing up English /l/ and /r/? Thanks very much!