The Phonological Study Of Sijihong Dialect As A Immigrant Language In Yuanjiang City

Sijihong town lies in the north of Yuanjiang city .The people in the town are immigrants of Zhexi reservoir in Anhua county. On the basis of investigating in the locality, the thesis mainly describes the phonetic systerm of Sijihong dialect and deals with the diachronic and synchronic comparative study on the phonology among Sijihong sound,Middle Ancient Time sound, Yuanjiang sound and Zhexi sound by using comparison and statistical methods .The thesis also reveals the phonological character of Sijihong dialect and the phonological influence of language contact.The thesis contains five chapters.The first chapter is introductions. This chapter introduces the location ,the historical course,the populations and the condition of major informants.The second chapter is the phonolgical systerm .This chapter describes the initials,finals and tones of Sijihong dialect,and analyzes literary and colloquial reading . In addition, I compile the syllabary of Sijihong dialect.The third chapter is the comparison between Sijihong sound and Middle Ancient Time sound by chart.The chapter also reveals the corresponding relationship between the Middle Ancient Time sound and Sijihong sound and analyzes the phonological character of Sijihong dialect in detail.The fourth chapter is the comparison among Sijihong dialect ,Yuanjiang dialect and Zhexi dialect.This chapter goes on the comparison by initial,final,tone.Then the phonetic discrepancies among the three dialects above are displayed.The fifth chapter is conclusion.The chapter mainly concludes the content of the whole thesis.