Study On Jiang-Huai Dialects In Northeast Of Hubei Province

It is in northeastern Hubei that Huang-Xiao dialects take the dominant position. It is an typical area where various dialects get in touch with each other.,which includes Zhongyuan dialect in the north, Southwest dialect in the northwest, Jianghuai dialect in Southeast, Huaiyue dialect of Gan dialect in the east and Datong dialect in south west. Jiang-Huai mandarin in Hubei province shows mixed features in phonetic sound, vocabulary and grammar, which is typical in a multi-dialect area. But from the angle of language exposure, these features all show that Gan dialect has affected the current Jiang-Huai dialect in Hubei, which means that the current Jiang-Huai dialect used to cover the area speaking Gan dialect. This conclusion just fits the migration of people in Jiang-Huai dialect area in history.The paper can be divided in to 7 chapters.Chapter 1 is Introduction which defines the subject of the research and briefly introduces the relevant geographic surroundings, history, as well as the content and method of the research.Chapter 2 introduces the phonetic system of the four dialects in the area of Jiang-Huai dialect in Hubei province.Chapter 3 compares the rhymes of the four dialects. Speaking of the number and phoneme of the initial consonant system, Yingshan dialect and Luotian dialect has similar initial consonant structures, while Huangzhou dialect's is quite like Wuxue dialect's. The devocalization of sonant initial consonants usually follows the rule of "lexical diffusion devoicing". However, from the west to the east of the area, more and more words with voiced oblique tones are pronounced as voiceless aspirated, while the features of Gan dialect gradually disappear from east to west. These words are often remained in the form of words and phrases, mostly oral ones. On the distinguish between the initials'n-'and'1-', Yingshan dialect and Huangzhou dialect gradually merge into each other, which seems to have the same direction with the central area of Jiang-Huai mandarin in Anhui province. In fact, the change inclines to the Southwest mandarin nearby, while in Luotian dialect fine sounds are not easy to distinguish, like Gan dialect. As for rhyme system, it shares the same pronunciation with Zhongyuan dialect, while its structure is the same with Jiang-Huai dialect. The rhymes of Yingshan, Huangzhou and Luotian dialect that are the same with the common language can usually be found in Zhongyuan dialect., while those rhymes that are different from the common language are always similar with those in Jiang-Huai dialect in Anhui province, such as two pronunciations of one word and different pronunciations in literary and colloquial ways. The most obvious similarity between Jiang-Huai dialect in Hubei and Anhui is that they both keep the fourth tone. The tone patterns of its rising, falling-rising and falling tones keep the same with most Southwest dialects, while they are different from those of Wutian and North-Hubei dialects nearby.Chapter 4 compares the four dialect areas in light of vocabulary. In Jiang-Huai dialect area in Hubei, adjacent areas often share the similar common vocabulary. There are a great many dialect words that are also used in Wu. Hunan and Jiangxi province. These words can also be seen in Southwest dialect. In Huangzhou and Wuxue, more and more words are ended with"儿"instead of"子".In Yingshan, the phenomenon is not so common as in Huangzhou and Wuxue.Luotian dialect keeps the most vocabularies ended by"子".Chapter 5 compares the four dialects in the light of grammar, such as dynamic scope and factitive case.First is the introduction the basis and the train of thought of the comparison of these dialects on grammar. Then follow the different patterns in each area. And finally the features of these patterns are concluded.Chapter 6 analyses the characteristics of Jiang_huai dialect in Hubei province with language contact theory, which argues that the change and the features of a language are correlated with migrants from different area. The change of Jiang-Huai dialect in Hubei province and its features show how covering migration disrupts the language features.After the migration, the migrant's language will rapidly change under the pressure of the original dialect, which leads to Koine.