USAGE: American low back vowels [was Re: New Try from a New Guy]

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Joseph Fatula scripsit:
>
> > Is the first vowel sound in American English "father" [a]?  The way that
> > sounds normal to me doesn't seem to have any diphthongization at all.
>
> Most Americans use [A] here, but in Boston they say [a].
In Chicago as well.

Question:  does anyone know where Mark Rosenfelder is?  I emailed him
some time ago about the possibility of a Chicago conlangcon, and he
never responded.

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