The Field Investigation And The Research Of The Sound System Of Pengshan Speech

The Pengshan Speech is one of the dialects in Sichuan, which is greatly different from the Chengdu Dialect which is adjacent to Pengshan Speech. Compared with other dialects in Sichuan, the distinctive feature is the ending tone which is still reserved in the Pengshan Speech. The Pengshan Speech belongs to the branch of the Minjiang river delta of the Southwestern Mandarin in Modern Chinese Dialects. There are few research results about the Pengshan Speech so far. Of the collected information, only two articles are thematic.This paper consists of five parts:The first part is the background of the Pengshan Speech, introducing Pengshan's general situations on the geography humanities, the historical evolution, and the actual research situation of the Pengshan Speech, including the object, the time and the material used in field investigation on the Pengshan Speech. The second part is the contents about the sound system of the speech in Pengshan, describing the initial consonants, rhymes and tones, inducing the laws of the phonological arrangement, and syllabic lists. The third part is longitudinal diachronic comparison: Comparing Pengshan speech with the Guangyun sound system (7th century) to get the laws of the phonetic evolution of the Pengshan Speech. The fourth part is horizontal synchronic comparison: Comparing Pengshan speech with Chengdu Speech which is the prevailing standard language of the Southwestern Madarin in Sichuan province. The fifth part is schedules, including homonymous words list, general words list and so on.Using the methods of linguistic description and comparative historical linguistics, the thesis compares the sound system of Pengshan Speech with both of the Chengdu Dialect and Guangyun sound system to reveal the features of sound system of Pengshan Speech and the laws of its evolution.