The Phonology Of Early Dialect Contact Between Sanxia Immigrants And Local People In Dajing Miluo Hunan

Since the later 20th Century, owing to the construction of the Sanxia , local people there emigrate from their original residence to the new settlement with their own dialect. Encircled by a new dialect, the dialect held by the immigrants froms a dialect Island. This paper describes the phonology of the immigrants' dialect originally coming from Shibao Town, Zhong Country, Chongqing and the local dialect in Dajing Town, Miluo Country, Yueyang respectively and makes a compaprative analysis to the differences and accordances between them, which lays a foundation for further investigation to the mutual linguistic influences between these two dialects. This paper includes the following five parts: Part One is the instruction which illustrates the research reasons, depicts the geographical positions, populations, dialects of the immigrants' former residence and their new settlement and portrays the setting situation.Part Two analyzes the characteristics of the consonants, vowels and tones of the immigrants' dialect, decribes the coordination relationships between the consonants and vowels, offers the syllabary.Part Three analyzes the characteristics of the consonants , vowels and tones of the local dialect, describes the coordination relationships between the consonants and vowels, offers the syllabary.Part Four makes a comparative analysis to the immigrants' dialect and the local dialect, and discusses their differences in the consonants , vowels and tones.Part Five clarifies the phonological characteristics and their origins of the immigrants' dialect and the local dialect, and looks into the future of the dialect contact.