Re: "walk" or "wuck" or "wahk" - was American-o

Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:15:17 -0800, Evan Kirshenbaum
> <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> "CIC" dialects, which don't distinguish between /O/ and /A/
>
> Taken at face value, that makes me definitely not a "CIC"
> speaker, because I most certainly distringuish between
> "born" ([bO:rn]) and "barn" ([bA:rn]).
>
> I believe I use the same vowel in "cot" and "caught", but
> clearly not in "cart" and "court". (I use the same vowel in
> "cot", "caught" and "cart".)

It may be that you only have a phonemic distinction before /r/.

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