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Are there American English dialects which distinguish /ɑ/ and /ɒ/ but not /ɑ/ and /ɔ/?

I don't think they're distinguishing /ɑ/ from /ɒ/. They use different symbols for taught (ä) and thought (ŏ), which rhyme in all dialects of English I know of (including the Boston one). So I think ...

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