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<<If you had the THOUGHT vowel in "walk" it'd be [wOk] rather than [wAUk].>>
Not necessarily. In much of the southern US, the vowel of THOUGHT is a diphthong like [AU] or [Ao]. In most of the rest of the US, it is something like [Q] (when it isn't merged with LOT/PALM).
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How do you all pronounce "figure"? I have [fIgr\=].
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I say both ["fIg@`] and ["fIgj@`]; the latter mostly for the noun and the former for the verb.
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I say ["fIgj@`] for both the noun and the verb.
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I formally pronounce both the noun and the verb "figure" as ["fI:gjR=:], but in actual everyday speech I use the more conservative pronunciation ["fI:gR=:] (rhotics aside) for the verb "figure".
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I'm from Scotland myself and I say [kI5] for "kiln".
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Thanks for your participation.
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I don't understand. Josh said L is very light in Canada.
Yet, the linguistic data suggest that light L is rarely vocalized in any language/dialect - dark L is normally vocalized.
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<<I don't understand. Josh said L is very light in Canada.
Yet, the linguistic data suggest that light L is rarely vocalized in any language/dialect - dark L is normally vocalized.>>
I was referring to the non-vocalized /l/'s that remain in my variety. And I don't think I said that they're very light, just that they're lighter than in much of the US. It's true that clear /l/ is hardly ever vocalized, but those who don't vocalize /l/ here have a very dark post-vocalic /l/--I think it might even be pharyngealized.
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Growing up in the American South, I never heard the "n" pronounced in "kiln." OTOH, the "r" was always there in "wash," and "rinse" was pronounced as if it ended in "ch." It's worth noting that Southern speech patterns tend to be very conservative and often mirror earlier British and Irish usage. BTW, I'll be 68 in a few months...
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