Research On Phonology Of Luohe Dialect

Luohe Dialect belongs to Zhongyuan Mandarin which is a branch branch of Mandarin. As is Zhongyuan Mandarin concerned, it belongs to the district of Cailu. And Luohe Dialect is an important branch of Zhongyuan Mandarin. The researchers of Luohe dialect are always really few, The local Gazetteer of Luohe only mentioned some simple aspects about phonology, vocabulary and gramer, neither systematic nor deepen. But the Luohe dialect pronunciation characteristic is obvious, for instance, the group of Jing and three groups consonants of Zhizhuangzhang read [ts tsh s] and so on. The article through comprehensive investigation and study of Luohe dialect and comparing it with the middle ancient pronunciation and Mandarin, aims at systematically describing Luohe dialect and can offer contemporary material to the research of Chinese dialects and history of Chinese language in a deeper step.This thesis, in seven chapters, provides a comprehensive description of the Luohe Dialect and furthermore explores certain important phonetic problems.The First Chapter:Summary. It introduces the general situation of geography, population and the historical evolution of Luohe; the general research situation in the dialect and the phonetic symbols.The Second Chapter:The Phonetic System of the Luohe Dialect. It describes in detail the phoneme characters of Luohe dialect in consonants, vowels and tones.The Third Chapter:The Phonetic Changes of the Luohe Dialect. It describes the changes in tone including the light and a special change in the end of pronunciation in Chinese.The Fourth Chapter:The Phonetic Comparison Between Luohe Dialect and Mandarin Pronunciation. It compares them in consonants, vowels and tones.The Fifth Chapter:The Phonetic Comparison Between Luohe Dialect and Ancient Pronunciation. It tries to analyze how ancient sounds developed into the Luohe Dialect in three respects. The Sixth Chapter:The ownership of Luohe dialect. Make an analyze of Luohe Dialect and constrast it with the dialect of neigehboring region, and then make a new definition of the ownership of there regions in Luohe dialect.The Seventh Chapter:The collection of homophones in the Luohe Dialect.