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b'Ooooo! It\'s the goosonomia episoode! Yes, in the eleventh instalment of Glossonomia, Phil and Eric talk for a very long time (1:36) about the [u] vowel. In it, we talk about the evolution of the /u/ sound, and how historical /u/ turned into /a\\u028a/(as in "house"), while historical /o\\u02d0/ turned into /u/ (as in "room").

We also discuss:

\\t\\u2022\\tgoose fronting, especially in California, but also in South Africa
\\t\\u2022\\tyod, and its use in /ju/ and /j\\u028a/
\\t\\u2022\\tyod dropping after coronals, as in "tune, duke, nuke, Luke, suit"
\\t\\u2022\\tyod coalescence in accents like Cockney (/tju/ becomes [t\\u0283u] for example)
\\t\\u2022\\tyod rhoticization in AAVE
\\t\\u2022\\tthe "yew-hew" merger in places like NYC, Philly and Cork, Ireland

Articles referred to in our conversation:
\\t\\u2022\\tChanges in Progress in Canadian English: Yod Dropping
\\t\\u2022\\tA Majority Sound Change in a Minority Community: /u/ Fronting in Chicano English by Carmen Fought
\\t\\u2022\\tSocio-phonetics and social change: Deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English by Rajend Mesthrie


The Great Vowel Push Chain Shift, from J.C. Wells\' Accents of English



Diagram showing how, when /o/ is fronting in RP, /\\u0254/ rises and /u/ is fronted, also from Accents of English.

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