A Study Of Evolution Of Rusheng In Hunan Dialect

This paper focuses on entering tone of Medieval.By using fieldwork, measurement,statistics,historical comparison and the theory of language contact,the paper describes the types and laws of entering tone's development of Hunan dialect,e.g,Xiang dialect湘语,Xinan Mandarin西南官话,Gan dialect赣语,kejia dialect客家话Xiangxi Xiang dialect湘西乡话etc,in Hunan province.In my opinion,the contact and influence mutually of dialect in Hunan is one of the most important impetuses of entering tone in Hunan dialect.It covers eight chapters in this paper.The first chapter gives a briefly introduction to Hunan's geographical features,history and the study methods.From chapter 2 to chapter 7,it describes the evolution of entering tone in Xiang dialect,Xinan Mandarin,Gan dialect,kejia dialect,southern Hunan dialect and Xiangxi Xiang dialect in Hunan province.It does not only describe the type and the rule of entering tone's evolution of Hunan dialect,but also explores the evolutionary cause,the condition and causes of some special phonetic phenomenon,such as the specialization of evolution of entering tone about Xiang dialect.The reason that Changsha dialect is more conservative than Shuangfeng dialect is also included.In Guiyang liufeng桂阳流峰and linwu maishi 临武麦市,their entering tones are in the regular polarization into two categories,and it's one of the most important features of the kejia dialect.In some areas,some entering yun入声韵have changed together with Yangsheng yun阳声韵etc.The last one discusses dialect contact in Hunan dialect.It summarizes the distribution,the evolution and developing trend of the entering tone in hunan dialect.The paper points out language contact plays an important role in entering tone's development of Hunan dialect.