The Phonological Study Of Nandashanzhen Dialects In Yuanjiang

Xiang dialect which is a important dialect occupies very important status in studying in Chinese, but the research of Xiang dialect is still relatively weak and a large amount of dialect areas wait to be studied. The dialect of Yuanjiang (沅江)city which lies in the north of HuNan has not received the attention of the academia all the time and lacked the systematic research materials. Considering that and on the basis of investigating in the locality, we mainly describe the phonetic system of Nandashanzhen (南大膳镇) dialect----the county town of Yuanjiang(沅江)that try to analyze and explain why Yuanjiang dialects form the present unique appearance, which fill the study gap of Yuanjiang dialects.The full thesis falls into seven parts altogether.The introduction part shows us the geography, the history, the population, the condition of language uses of Yuanjiang city briefly. It also introduces the present studies on the Yuanjiang dialects and the emphasis and the main purpose of our re search.The first chapter describes an account of the phonetic system of Nandashanzhen dialects.The second chapter describes and analyses the relation about initial, final and tone, the features of Nandashanzhen dialects.The third chapter compares and analyses the Nandashanzhen dialects and the Beijing dialects. The fourth chapter describes and analyses literary reading and colloquial reading.The fifth chapter is about homephone tables of the Nanda(南大) dialect.The rest of the essay analyses the above material synthetically and advances that Nandashanzhen dialects should belong to ChangYipian of Xiang dialects and while it preserves itself peculiarities, it separately be influenced by the peripheral dialects in different degree because of distinct locations.