What is it about?

This article deals with the problems of prescriptively teaching the IPA consonant positions, for which there are many acceptable variations.

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Why is it important?

Greg Raver-Lampman

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I believe this is important for ESL and EFL teachers struggling to teach difficult consonants and consonant distinctions, including the s and sh and the r and l.

Mr Greg H Raver-Lampman
Old Dominion University

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This page is a summary of: An acceptable non-alveolar Japanese /s/, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jslp.1.2.05rav.
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