Non-Native Spanish Speakers Often Have Difficulty Rolling the "Rr" Consonant

question 23

Multiple Choice

Non-native Spanish speakers often have difficulty rolling the "rr" consonant.Why does this most likely occur?

• A) This phoneme may not exist in the speaker's language,so he or she has difficulty with this novel pronunciation.
• B) This morpheme may not exist in the speaker's language,which might make pronunciation difficult.
• C) The syntactical structure has no meaning to the non-native speaker who needs to develop an association with this consonant to his or her native language.
• D) Those who learn to speak Spanish learn a different grammar and,therefore,have difficulty differentiating between a rolled "r" and the "r" sound of their native language.

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