Phonetic Study Of Yichuan Dialect

Since the reform-opening policy, the academic research about dialect in our country made significant achievements of hitherto unknown. Under the forerunner research of Henan dialect by Zhang Qihuan and He Wei, there emerges a large number of excellent papers on the study about dialects. However, up to now, there is still a blank on the systematic research about Yichuan dialect. Therefore, to investigate the Yichuan dialect systematically is a very important progress.This paper takes Yichuan Chengguan and Baisha town dialect spoken by the older generation as an example. To compare it with Mandarin and the ancient Chinese phonology, Yichuan dialect is found to have distinctive features:Yichuan dialect has 23 consonants,42vowels and 4 tones.On the part of initial consonant, Yichuan dialect has the unique sharp and rounded sound. Furthermore, its ancient initial "wei" consonant is read as labio-dental voiced fricative [v]. On the other hand, its vowel system is more complex than that of Mandarin. [ш] vowels is widely used, [u] [ou] hymes in Yichuan dialect for consonant vary; Yin, Yang, tone or sound, tone 4 tone, but with different Mandarin tone. Ancient "Rushengzi" is into the three sound, and Mandarin is different times voiced tone characters belong to Yin and not back sound.The rhotic, tone, tone, tone, literary and colloquial readings and other phenomena analysis to find out the Yichuan dialect pronunciation variations:characteristics of Yichuan dialect the retroflexization more generally, to [ш] rhyme into the tail; partial tone words and syneresis words are used more commonly, some have become fixed phrases, but more is a sound one; both into the system of literary and colloquial readings, and a single word of literary and colloquial readings, from dialect to elderly people in the pronunciation to the young people of the pronunciation has a very strong level of.