Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

> In some dialects, "father" and "claw" have the same sound
> (/A:/), while in many they don't (e.g. /A:/ and /Q:/).  But
> is there a dialect in which "all" and "awl" don't sound
> identical?
I suspect this occurs in some western American dialects which
have fronting of /A/ but may borrow "awl" from a dialect (such
as General American) where it is /A/, since it is a local-frequency
item nowadays for most people.

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