Title: Variant Pronunciation and Phonetic Change in Xu Village Dialect in She County
Abstract:It is a universal phenomenon that dialects can have different readings.From the actual situation of Xu Village dialect in She County,there are four forms of variant pronunciation:the first one is lite...It is a universal phenomenon that dialects can have different readings.From the actual situation of Xu Village dialect in She County,there are four forms of variant pronunciation:the first one is literary and colloquial reading;the second one is the internal inflectional vowels;the third one is the tone sandhi;and the last one is the syneresis phenomenon occurring in the development of speech.Sound change is a kind of phonetic change in language flow due to the mutual influence of syllables.In speaking of Xu Village dialect,the change is mainly due to the combination of the Qing fouth tone with the level tone,the falling and rising tone and the falling tone.In the strict sense,it does not belong to different pronunciation,but a voice change form which has an essential difference with different pronunciation.Studies on the two kinds of phenomena are significant to revealing the dialect and medieval phonology link.And above all the research on inflectional dialect speech internal vowel has a theoretical significance in studying the existence of morphological changes in medieval Chinese.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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