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I pronounce them all with the same formation. It does sound like the differences would be heard in some of the accents, specifically thinking of Boston.

I dont know how anyone could learn to speak with this distinction because as far as I can tell there is nothing in the spelling to tell you which words are supposed to be pronounced which way. Hot and dog are both spelled with o...

So how do I include æ in the middle of a cursive word?

You have a great pronunciation. From which part of the United States are you? You sound very neutral. A good example for me.

Teacher, what is the position of the tongue when you pronounce the "ɑ" sound??

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Could you please explain the "Low back merger" (where /ɔ/ and maybe /ɒ/ become /ɑ/) and the "Weak vowel merger" (where unstressed /ɪ/ and maybe /ʊ/ become /ə/)? I'm learning to pronounce words in American English (in general), so I focus on the most standard/common pronunciations, but it's very difficult to know what they are, various dictionaries differ from each other and I think the main conflicts are based on these two mergers, the rest is usually consistent. So far my understanding is that in General American English (or Standard American English) people pronounce /ɑ/ instead of /ɔ/ (and they use /ɔ/ only in /ɔɪ/ and /ɔɹ/), and that /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ in unstressed syllables should be pronounced as /ə/, but I really don't know.

great video.

QUestion: is it correct to say /ta:k/ (talk) ?

2:23 are you in this time said ( claude)

1:26 in this time are said ( raw ) or ( rah ) Please.

It’s actually insane how much more helpful this was than my SLP class in college.

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So could you tell me, how do people with cot caught merger pronounce "boy": /bɔɪ/ or /bɑɪ/ ? Similarly, choice is pronounced /tʃɔɪs/ or /tʃɑɪs/ for people with cot caught merger?

huh, I say both the way he is saying 'caught' and the way he is saying 'cot' well if I didn't know he was talking about a bed I'd interpret it as cat

This video helped me more than any of my professors or textbook! Thank you so much!!

Man, this was the most frustrating things to find on a Mac! Thank you for the simple demonstration!

There seems to be a non-merger area in the far western USA. This occurs in the area immediately surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area, where I was raised. I don't speak the merger but my daughters who were raised in the San Joaquin Valley (or Central Valley) of California do speak with the merger. Just an interesting linguistic wrinkle here. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks a million.

This is such a relief! I think phonetics is a mess. There are American people using British transcription to explain American pronunciation. There are websites where the IPA phonemes are mispronounced. There is an IPA, DJ, KK phonetic system; no one ever says which one they are using. I see a mix of different phonetic systems in the same transcription. I see made-up transcriptions that correspond with nothing I know of. I see certain phonemes associated with totally different sounds. And then, I see distinction between phonemes that I don't make. I consider myself to have a neutral American accent. I normally use the ɔ sound for most of these words you've mentioned. I may slightly open the vowel towards an ɑ, depending on the surrounding sounds/specific word (but not all of them). I am really interested in phonetics/teaching the American accent. Do you offer any courses or can you recommend any?

Thank you, very helpful

Thanks a lot. You helped me out.

Thanks!

It's not so much a "merger" as a switch. In Boston they have both sounds. So: "cot" (bed) becomes "caught", but the number forty becomes "fahty" (rhymes with "potty"). For this reason, I do wish people would stop calling it "merger", as there are two distinctive sounds.

He pronounces mirror as one syllable, almost...as mir.e 2:23

Thank you, now I can write the name of Elon Musk's son.

I was helpful indeed! I am a professor for the English department at a university in Costa Rica and I am definitely going to use this video for one of my lessons pretty soon. Thank you very much!

As a non native English speaker this video gives me hints about not worring too much on English pronunciation. I use to be quite fussy and always try to do my best differentiating these two sounds. But now I realize that it depends on the region where English is spoken.

Hello from Russia! You just saved my life, 'cause I was thinking that I was gonna die from curiosity not being able to distinguish these two sounds! Thank you! Sadly, different dictionaries have different IPA symbols, and it's totally confusing... May I ask you a question? For instance, in the word 'boss' I can hear /ɑ/ sound, 'orange' has both options as far as I know, but in the word 'walk' - a dictionary says it's /ɑ/, is that correct? Preceding /w/ confuses me as it's a rounded sound just like /ɔ/...

that was nice, but could you write down the words that you've said in the video?

Wow, now i see how it is, thanks

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When I first learned that ɔ (aw) + ɪ (i) = ɔɪ (oy), I couldn't believe it. Initially, I thought that something was wrong with the dictionary that I was reviewing. Crazy stuff.

Most Canadians don't distinguish them either, including me. (lived in Montreal, Halifax, Regina, & Victoria). I can hear the difference when they're pronounced in this video, though. Both "cot" and "caught" for me are pronounced the way he says "caught."

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video, it was extremely helpful.

Is there /ʃ/ sound between the letter T and R in words like truck and metro. thank you.

is /Ju/ diphthong as in use /yuz/ - /juz / or just two sounds in american accent. Thank you.

is /ɝ/ and /ɚ/monophthongs not R-colored or diphthongs, why. thank you.

- i'm still confused, is the flap T, is soft d and like second d in DADDY as in ( putting and pudding )

Hello, in american accent there are two difference vowel chart IPA, for two symbol : 1 - is this symbol /e/ the same sound for /eɪ/ 2 - and is this symbol /o/ the same sound for /oʊ/ can give me example for every symbol. - is /e/ and /o/ Americans Thank you so much.

Hello, I am working on IPA book for foreign students. I've tried everything you said, yet nothing has worked. Charis SIL font doesn't exist in my mac. I tried Arial. No help, could you please make a video for those who have maybe the most common font which can allow the use of IPA symbols. Please!

i never pronounce these differently.

Please, how is the word "author" pronounced with these two accents?

I like how you mention Utah in particular. That's where I teach ESL and I tell my students we don't really use the /ɔ/ sound out here.

Alright people, let's get together and agree on how this should be done.

anyway to make "customized shortcut symbol" rather than the code? Thank you

so useful thank you!!

Thank you for clarity and concision!