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Boston accents typically have the cot-caught merger but not the father-bother merger. This means that instead of merging the historical "short o" sound (as in {{Sc2) with the "broad a" (as in ) like most other American accents, the Boston accent merges it with the "aw" vowel (as in ). Thus, lot, paw, caught, cot, law, wand, rock, talk, doll, wall, etc. all are pronounced with the

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