[These are the lyrics to a metal song about Lovecraft's _The Dunwich
Horror_](http://rocklyric.jp/lyric.php?sid=136149/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%81%AE%E6%80%AA/%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93%E6%A4%85%E5%AD%90).
The band tends go Classical for effect (cf. the refrain at the end: 闇にこぞりて /
我が主来ませり …). The first verse is transcribed in most Japanese sites as this:

> 俺は大地と海洋の  
>  近親婚の末息子  
>  因襲めいた村の奥  
>  夜鷹に言葉 **教わった**

However, when I listen to the song, I hear the singer go /o.so.wa.ra.ta/
([0:56- here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1ndqXbdUY) – notice that his
/r/ is often lateralized; cf. 0:41, 0:54, 3:24 etc.). Not _osowatta_ , not
_osowareta_ , but _osowa **ra** ta_.

When I told my teachers about this they said, “B-baka na! Surely you're
mishearing! Sonna koto wa nai hazu! That form doesn’t exist, it doesn’t even
_make sense_!” They said it was impossible. They said no native speaker would
ever produce it. But I'll show them! With the dark powers of ad-hoc Google
searches, I'll show all of them!

From 『去日来日』 by 植松正 (1977)：

> これは、よほど学「先生」と言ったって、学校などで **教わらた** 先生というのとは、だいぶ感じが違う。

From 『逸見東洋の世界』 by 臼井洋輔 (1990):

> 寺子屋では **教わらた** のか、心そこにあらずで、彼が本気で出入りしていたのは、[…]

From 『現代のエスプリ』 , somewhere between nos. 286 to 289:

> その構造は数学的にみても動をやってのけます。たとえば彼らは、誰にも **教わらた** 神経結合の組み合わせだけで、[…]

These 3 are all we get from Google Books, but they're in actual print. Google
Scholar claims two more hits but they're restricted, and a regular web search
gets some ~20 examples (versus 170 for _osowatta_ ).

So my question is: Are these all typos? A surface phonetic process (which)? A
dialect form? Language change? And what does it _mean_ – is it equivalent to
_osowaratta_ 、 _osowareta_ (if this even makes sense?)、 some Classical form I
don’t recognize, or what?
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Japanese: "osowarata"?
I listened to the music, and it also sounded like ら to me as a single sound.
But, I simply understand this as った.

Japanese ら's r is generally an alveolar lateral flap, which is like /t/
without plosive or stop. Although, these two sounds are quite different from
Japanese natives, they are close. If you open your mouth and breathe while
saying /っ/, it sounds like ら.

I don't think Google Books scanned correctly. ら and っ look similar, and some
other parts of these books were also not scanned correctly.

osowareta doesn't make sense because it is 襲われた (attacked). Also, 教わる is 四段活用,
so the original form is osowari-ta, modified by 撥音便 to be osowat-ta, but this
change occurred 1000+-200 years ago, and the original form is not natural at
all now. And, osowarA is 未然形, and it is so unnatural to go with た. I believe
there are no dialects like this.

Typos like 教わるた are common. Say you typed "businessman" and decided to change
it to "businessperson." Sometimes you delete too much or less and get a
"businesperson."
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There is no Japanese word that's spelt or spoken as "教わらた."

Neither the past tense of the verb, "教える" or "教わる" does inflect into "教わらた."

It should be 教わった, 教えられた、or 習った if we use a different word. I wonder why such
an expression as "寺子屋では教わらたのか," and "誰にも教わらた神経結合の組み合わせ" exists in reliable
publications.

I think it's a typo, or perhaps you misread the word in question.
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