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People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I think that this is most likely the case:

In the audio for this spectrogram I've pronounced [rä arä lä älä]. Even with all background noise, it's obvious how smoother the [l] is in comparison with [r] - in one you're simply redirecting the airflow laterally, in another you're "turning" it on and off, by hitting the alveolar ridge with the tongue.