Phonetic Study Of Hebei Xinglong Mine Dialect

Xinglong County is situated in the Northeast of the Province, south to Chengde Cityand in the north side of the Great Wall. The dialect of the county can be classified into Jizundialect of Baotang sub-dialect of Jilu Mandarin dialect. This paper focuses mainly on theresearch of phonetic system for dialect of Xinglong County (Specifically, the GualangyuTown). Based on the field investigation, the paper carries out a description and analysis intothe phonetic changes of the dialect in such area, including the sound, rhyme and tone of suchdialect, as well as the origin of the ancient sound, continuous tone change,"r"-retroflexing.And focuses on the verb changes within the dialect of such area.Relatively valuable research and main conclusion in this paper are:1、There is no great different between the initial consonant and simple or compound vowelin the word tone system of such dialect and that of the Mandarin, particularly, the rising toneare of greater difference with that in the Mandarin, which is the rising and falling tone, asshown in type31. The ancient sounds in Xinglong dialect shares the same origin with that ofthe Mandarin, the differences is:part of the words Ying Mu and Yi Mu is read as KaiKouHuzero initial in the Mandarin,but some of these words read as the initial “n”;and some Lai Muthird class words featuring yushe and tongshehekou characters (Rusheng) now evolves into“uei” as of today, i.e. the word “lv(绿)” is pronounced as “[luei53]”,“lv(吕)”is pronouncedas “[luei213]”, and “lv(滤)” is pronounced as “[luei53]”.2、The tone-changing process for words with rising tone are more complicated than othersof Xinglong dialect, for which, there are four tone-changing types as depicted in type31-22、31-53、31-45、31-44, while for level tone, there is one tone-changing type, as shown in type44-45. The combining degree for “R-retroflexed final are higher than that of Mandrin.3、"R"-retroflexed verb rhythm changing phenomenon exists in Xinglong dialect, and such"r"-retroflexed verb rhythm changing phenomenon is only identical to the dialect’s"r"-retroflexed sound compound words in the phonetic forms. The grammatical items thatresult in the phonetics change are different, so does the level of sound compounding.Moreover, different sound compounding conditions may result in different stability for sound compounding forms as well.4、The suffixed function words that triggered the verb rhythm changing phenomenon, whichresults in the sound compounding effect in Xinglong dialect are the Chinese characters suchas “liao”,“zhuo”,”de”,”zai” and “dao”(in Romanized Chinese). The positional conditions forthe occurrence of such verb rhythm changing effect should be in any position other than at theend of a sentence. From the comparison with verb rhythm changing phenomena in Henan andShandong Province, we can find that the application of such phenomenon in Xinglong dialectis only in a relatively small area and the stability for sound compounding forms is relativelylow, thus it is considered as in the process of development.The research studied in this paper can rich the research results of Xinglong dialect oreven the Heibei dialect, which is of certain reference value to the understanding of one of thedialectal phenomenon, the verb rhythm changing.