A Study On The Phonology Of Guxian Dialect

Taken the dialect of Guxian County as the subject, this thesis aims to present a comprehensive record of the Phonology system of Guxian County and a description as well as an analysis of some of its phonetic phenomenon.The thesis consists of seven chapters.It first offers an introduction of the present situations of the research of the phonology system of Guxian County. Then, it elaborates on the Phonology system of this dialect, including initial consonant, final, Citation tone, tone sandhi, retroflex final, sound changes of suffix, glottal stop dropping, checkedization, characters have two phonetic forms with glottal stop or vowel final, divided-sound words and syneresis words. In the third chapter, a chart is presented to show the coordination between initial consonant, final and Citation tone. Through comparisons of initial consonant, final and tone between Guxian dialect and Common Language.the fourth chapter concludes some corresponding rules between these two languages. In the following chapter, emphasis is placed on comparisons of the Phonology systems between Guxian Dialect and Mid-century Chinese. It comes to some correspondences of initial consonant, final, tone between Mid-century Chinese and Guxian dialect as well as correspondences of initial consonant and final between modern Guxian Dialect and Mid-century Chinese. The sixth chapter dedicates to the literary and colloquial expressions of Guxian dialect, involving both initial consonant and final. The last chapter includes a list of homophones in the dialect. It makes an alphabet by final of the monosyllabic words in the dialect.