A Study On The Phoneme Of Jiaonan Dialect

Jiaonan Dialect belongs to Jiaoliao Mandarin, which is an important branch of Mandarin.At present,it has no systemic research about Jiaonan Dialect. The dialect part of Local Gazetteer of Qingdao only mentioned some simple aspects about Phoneme,lexicon and grammer of the Jiaonan city,from which we couldn't see the differences from those of other towns in Jiaonan. Based on a more comprehensive investigation and study about Phoneme, the article shows the basic features of Jiaonan Dialect. In sum, study on Jiaonan Dialect can offer materials not only to the research of ShanDong dialect,particularly the DongWei dialect, but also to the further research of Chinese dialects and the history of Chinese language.Compared with the phonology of Mandarin Chinese and Qieyun,this thesis provides a comprehensive description of the Jiaonan Dialect and solves certain important phonectic problems in seven sections.Section One: Introduction. It explains the general geography, history and population of Jiaonan;the dialect branch which Jiaonan Dialect belongs to; its basic features and the phonetic symbols and main informants.Section Two: The single-character phonetic system, its major peculiarties and polyphonetic characters. It describes in detail the phoneme characters of Jiaonan Dialect in consonants,vowels and tones, and the basic features of phoneme.Section Three: The changes of pronunciation, the tone sandhi of disyllabic word ,the neutral tone and erhua.Section Four: Syllabary. It contains about 4500 words of Jiaonan city Dialect.Section Five: The comparison between Jiaonan Dialect and Mandarin Chinese.Section Six: The comparison between Jiaonan Dialect and Qieyun phonology.Section Seven: Phonetic peculiarties in different towns of Jiaonan.