From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 48922 Date: 2007-06-08
On 2007-06-08 05:19, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> Or as I'd write them, /A./ and /O:/. (Following Gimson, I
> think.)
Right. But the tradition of transcribing RP "aw" as /O:/ goes back to
the days of Daniel Jones, when the vowel was apparently mid-low (close
to cardinal [O]); now its typical realisations are pretty high.