The Phonetic Study Of Linxi Dialect

Linxi county lies in the southeast of Hebei province, The Linxi dialect is the representative of Shiji dialect of Jilu Mandrin dialect, There are differences between the east area dialect and the west area dialect. This paper deals with the east area dialect system, the content include individual characters, sandhi tone, neutral tones and erhua.The valuable founds and mainly conclusions are:1,Individual characters: Now the"ri"initial Zhi she opening characters in mid ancient Chinese history have no intials, most of others have [l] initials, few have [?] initials. Ancient jian initials Xie she opening mouth(the 2ed degree)have the [iai] vowel; the vowel of literal vs colloquial pronunciation is complicated of the Zeng she opening mouth (the 1st and 3rd degree ) and Geng she opening mouth (2rd degree) Rusheng characters; Qusheng tone has obvious fry voice.2,Sandhi tone: The tone of the front characters change in stressed-stressed words. The change of four citation tones in stressed-light words are quite different from the stressed-stressed words. Especially with AA?stressed-light words, the change is affected by the part of speech.3,Neutral tones: The neutral tones of Linxi dialect are typical weakening tones, the length, pitch, intensity and quality of the vowels become weakened. The pitch of neutral tones turn into [2] or [4] affected by the front characters.The initials become weakened or turn into voiced are important phenomenons in neutral tones.4,Erhua:There are 23 ER rhymes, which is less than Mandrin. The ER rhymes fall into 6 groups. They are:?r,?r,?r,ar,?r and ur, most of ER rhymes have kaikouhu, qichihu, hekouhu and cuokouhu.This paper discribes and analyses the individual characters and phonetic changes of the Linxi dialect, which offers the addition to the study of Jilu Mandrin dialect, as well as offering certain references about sandhi tone, neutral tones and erhua to the study of Chinese phonetic.