Hole Gan Dialect Speech Research

Gan Dialect of DongKou has ever been investigated and studied, but the investigation was confined to the dialect of one place, so that its whole features were not recognized and what it should belong to is being debated. I investigated speech sounds of 10 places in Gan Dialect of DongKou by myself, and at the same time Xiang Dialect in HuangQiao , JinTian and YangLin Town of DongKou too. By my investigation, I gained a lot of firsthand materials and had an overall, deep impression on speech sounds of Gan Dialect of DongKou.This paper adopts the comparative and statistical law. In the light of the ancient and modern phonetic system the historical changes and present features of Gan Dialect in DongKou are found out. To objectively explain some appearance a lot of figures are used.There are eight chapters in this paper. It mainly introduces basic information about DongKou County, present study situation about Chinese dialects of DongKou and phonetic system of each place. The paper describes and discusses the changes of consonant, vowel and tone systematically, trying to explain some phonetic appearance by the linguistic theories, raising some views of myself, and comparing Gan Dialect of DongKou with Xiang Dialect of DongKou and Gan Dialect in JiangXi in order to understand it in breadth. Finally the paper lists...