The Sound Systems Of The Speeches In The Dayi City And Its Adjacent Seven Counties Of Sichuan Province

The Speeches of Yingjing, Dayi, Qionglai, Chongzhou, Dujiangyan, Wenjiang, Pixian are very different from the dialect of Chengdu which are close to these places in geography. And the distinctive feature is the ending tone which is still reserved in the Speeches of these seven places. The Speech of these seven places belong to the branch of the Minjiang river delta of the Southwestern Mandarin in Modern Chinese Dialects. There are few speech research about them so far.This paper consists of six parts:The first part is an overview of the study of the speeches of these places,and introduces persons who read materials for my study, time,and materials aboat the field research. The second part is the background of the speeches of these seven places, introducing their general situations on the geography humanities, the historical evolution, and the actual research situation. The third part is the contents about the sound system of the speeches in these seven places, describing the initial consonants, rhymes and tones, inducing the laws of the phonological arrangement, and syllabic lists. The fourth part is horizontal syanchronic comparison:Comparing the speeches of these seven places with Chengdu Speech which is the prevailing standard language of the Southwestern Madarin in Sichuan province. The fifth part is the list of words including a number of words in common use and some special words. The sixth part is schedules.Using the methods of linguistic description and comparative historical linguistics, the thesis compares the sound system of the speeches of the seven places with both of the Chengdu Dialect and Guangyun sound system to reveal the features of sound system of the Speeches of the seven places and the laws of their evolution.