Link Haul - Japanese Trilled R and the Yakuza

A reader sent me an email asking me for information on the relationship between the Japanese trilled R, yakuza speech, and working class masculinity. I found some posts which I thought might be interesting for readers of this blog, as well: First, this Stack Exchange post : If you're referring to the kind of allophone on /r/ that typically appears in yakuza speech, as you said yourself, it is…