> 2) apical /r/ is the last phoneme Polish children learn (hence
> presumably the hardest to learn).
The same is with Russian: that relatively small percent of children
who can't cope with the alveolar trill (RP) usually adopt an uvular
trill/fircative (speech defect).
Sergei
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