The Sound Systems Of The Speeches In The Leshan City And Its Adjacent Five Counties Of Sichuan Province

The Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties of Sichuan Province are the dialects in Sichuan, which is greatly different from the Chengdu Dialect which is the center of Sichuan Dialect. Compared with other dialects in Sichuan, the distinctive feature is the ending tone which is still reserved in the Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties. The Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties belongs to the branch of the Minjiang river delta of the Southwestern Mandarin in Modern Chinese Dialects. There are few research results about The Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties so far.This paper consists of four parts:The first part is the background of the The Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties, introducing Pengshan's general situations on the geography humanities, the historical evolution, and the actual research situation of the Pengshan Speech, including the material used in field investigation on the Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties. The second part is the contents about the sound system of the Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties, describing the initial consonants, rhymes and tones, inducing the laws of the phonological arrangement, and syllabic lists. The three part is horizontal synchronic comparison: Comparing Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties with Chengdu Speech which is the prevailing standard language of the Southwestern Madarin in Sichuan province, and Beijing Speech. The four part is schedules, including maps list, general words list and so on.Using the methods of linguistic description and comparative historical linguistics, the thesis compares the sound system of Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties with both of the Chengdu Dialect and Beijing sound system to reveal the features of sound system of Speeches in the Leshan City and its Adjacent Five Counties and the laws of its evolution.