The Phonological Study Of Jiepai Dialect In Anhua County

Anhua County is the third biggest county of Hunan Province, and lies in the boundary between Changyi and Loushao categories of Xiang Dialect, a mountainous area. There are remarkable language differences among many parts of Anhua County, but so far, no one has made a all-around, in-depth investigation upon Anhua Dialect. After investigated, I made a detailed depiction and comparing research of the Jiepai Dialect, which is the most familiar to me, as the representative of Anhua Dialect. This thesis is dedicated to explanation of the system and characteristics of Jiepai Dialect by language evidences, and further study of Anhua Dialect and Xiang Dialect as first-hand materials.The thesis divided into seven parts: introduction, phonological system, syllabary of homophones, the comparison between Jiepai Dialect and Mandarin, the comparison between Jiepai Dialect and Mid-ancient phonology system, literary reading and colloquial reading, Phonological characteristics.Partâ… introduces Anhua County and Jiepai Village's location, population, history course, situation of native language, method of research and major informants.Partâ…¡lists initials, finals, tone, syllabic consonants, tone sandhi of Jiepai Dialect.Partâ…¢offers homo-syllable units of Jiepai Dialect.Partâ…£analyzes the parallel rules of Jiepai Dialect and Mandarin after comparison.Partâ…¤analyzes the phonology development, which from the Mid-ancient to the Jiepai Dialect.Partâ…¥analyzes the differences and rules of literary reading and colloquial reading.Partâ…¦describes the phonological characteristics of Jiepai Dialect and compares it to other dialect of adjacent areas.