A Study Of The Contact Between Mandarin And Dialect

Language contact is a research hotspot and focus in linguistics. The traditional study of language contact whose main concern is on the contacts between the systems of quite different typology, pay insufficient attention to the contacts between the systems of smaller different typology. Contacts between Mandarin and dialect belong to the contacts between the systems of smaller different typology. What are the exhibition and law of these contacts? And what are the important factors that will be affected? Taking pronunciation as entrance, the contact of Changsha dialect and Mandarin as case, This thesis approaches these questions through analyzing the changes of mandarin with Changsha dialect and the change of new-style Changsha dialect, comparing the mandarin with Changsha dialect with that of Shanghai and Wuhan.This thesis has eight sections. Section one is the introduction, following with six chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, it shows the related situation about the chosen topics as well as introduces the language contact, the mandarin with dialect and materials about its research. Chapter one describes the voice system of Changsha dialect and Mandarin, and compares the voice system of Changsha dialect with the voice system of Mandarin. The following three chapters talk about the impact how dialect affects mandarin through Mandarin with dialect. Chapter two analyses the error which is caused by the differences of phonetic categories in Mandarin with Changsha dialect. Comparing phonetic categories of Changsha dialect with that of Mandarin, comparing the development of Gu Yin in Changsha dialect with that in Mandarin, this thesis analyses the reason how the error of phonetic categories comes into and the change of the error of phonetic categories in different accent. Chapter three analyses the error in Mandarin with Changsha dialect from two aspects, value error and value defect. Chapter four compares mandarin with Changsha dialect, Shanghai dialect and Wuhan dialect. It tells the general and specific character of Mandarin with dialect, and approaches the reason how the general and specific character comes into. Chapter five mainly researches the impact by Mandarin to dialect. It makes an investigation on the differences between the old-style and the new-style of Changsha dialect. The thesis also analysis the reason how these changes take place. Chapter six approaches the strong elements and weak elements of language as well as the contact of Mandarin and dialect to a certain degree. The end, which is the conclusion to the whole thesis, also points out the imperfection of the study and the content of further research. This study has four main significances. Firstly, the study can enrich the data about Changsha dialect. Through the investigation to the pop pronunciation of Changsha dialect, it provides the latest information about the Changsha dialect. Secondly, it can promote the research about mandarin with dialect, it is the first time to do such a deep and detailed study to mandarin with Changsha dialect through pronunciation. The study can provide firsthand material for Mandarin with dialect which is relatively full and accurate, and that can play a role of learning to the later study of Mandarin with dialect. Thirdly, the study can promote study of the contact between dialect and mandarin. This thesis which provide a new way to the study of contact between mandarin and dialect, tries to analysis the influence caused by mandarin to dialect through the differences between the old-style of dialect and the new-style of dialect, the influence caused by dialect to mandarin through the mandarin with dialect. Fourthly, the study can provide a reference to the voice recognition, especially the accent in the area where the people speak dialect.According to the analysis, the study gets some conclusion. Firstly, in language, there are strong elements and weak elements, which are fettered by the development of language itself and markedness ingredients. Secondly, language development is the result of the functions by both internal factors and external factors, but in different historical stages, the internal factors and external factors played a role of unbalanced development. Nowadays when language contact happens frequently, in process of language change, external factors play a leading role while function of internal factors is decreasing.