Phonological Characteristics Study Of Hebei Hengshui Taocheng Dialect

Taocheng District lies in the center of Hebei Province, belongs to Shiheng part of Jilu mandarin. Taocheng dailect’s development is unbalanced, it has complicated changes. This thesis investigated and analysed Taocheng dialect pronunciation in detail by making use of the questionnaire about the word. It can be divided into four parts except the introduction :The first part introduces the phonological system of Taocheng dialect. The second part is the initial consonants, description and analysis of Zhi Zhuang Zhang,three groups of initials, jiantuanyin, rimu characters, yingyimu characters in Taocheng dialect pronunciation and the differences between new and old schools. The third part analyses the vowels system of Taocheng dialect from Yin rhyme, Yang rhyme and Ru rhyme in deepth. The last part is about the peach tone. This part manily analyses Taocheng dialect’s Rusheng into three tones and sandhi tone.Through my research, we can draw the following conclusions:Initial:1.Zhi Zhuang Zhang group has two types of pronunciation [?,?] and [t?,?] in Taocheng dialect, namely,the pronunciation of east and south area is [?]、[??]、[s] and[?]、[??]、[?], the pronunciation of west and north area of is [t?]、[t??]、[?] and [?]、[??]、[?]. Their ancient originated from the same initials.They have the same ancient initials. Through the comparison of the aged, the middle-aged and the young, we can find that the pronunciation of Zhi Zhuang Zhang group in Taocheng dialect is changing from[?][?]or [t?] [?] to [t?]. It is the trend of Zhi Zhuang Zhang group pronunciation’s development in Taocheng dialect.2.Taocheng dialect has jiantuanyin. Jianxiao group xiyin’ pronunciation is [?]、[??]、[?] and jing group xiyin’s pronunciation is [tθ]、[tθ?]、[θ]. This situation exists not only in Zhao Quanzhen but also exists in other places of Taocheng District,But jiantuanyin exists less in other places. Through the comparison of the aged, the middle-aged and the young, we can find that the young read jianyin less. The combination of Jianyin and tuanyin become more and more obvious.3.The gu Ri initial has their pronunciation types:[??]、[?]、[l]. Because of people’s educational levels continued to rise and the further promotion of Mandarin, the young people have begun to use [?] initials, [??] evolved into [?r] and [?]、[l] evolve into [?]gradually.The pronunciations of gu ri initial are slowly moving closer to the Mandarin,It is the trend of gu Ri initial’development.4.The initial of Gu Ying Yi kaikou sandeng in Taocheng dialect pronounces[?]now, the elderly’s pronunciation is very stable, the middle-aged and more and more young people read [?] initials. This is in direct contact with the rapid development of the modern communication means, the educational degree and Mandarin’s promotion.Rhymes:1.Yin rhyme:Guoshe kaikou yideng Ge rhyme in Taocheng dialect has the pronunciation of hekou.Xieshe hekou yideng Duan group reads kaikou rhyme in Taocheng dialect. Xieshe hekou Lai initial words read hekou rhyme.There is colloquial and literary phenomenon in the Xieshe kaikou sansideng Duan group and Zhishe kaikou sandeng Bang group. Literary reading form is [-i], colloquial reading form is [-ei].2.Yang rhyme:In Taocheng dialect, the nasal consonants of Xianshe and Shanshe are off. The main vowels are nasalization. That is to say, the coda of [an]、[ian]、[uan]、[yan] appeared the tendency of weakening in Taocheng dialect.The coda of [-n] is lost, the main vowels are nasalization, at last the before nasal finals of [an]、[ian]、[uan]、[yan] become into the nose rhymes of [?]、[i?]、[u?]、[y?].3.Ru rhyme:The stops tail of Ru rhyme is totally lost in Taocheng dialect. On the condition of the main vowels rhyme are similar or identical, Ru rhyme is combined with Yin rhyme. The pronunciation of Ru rhyme exists much colloquial and literary phenomenon, mainly concentrated in the Dangshe kaikou yideng duo rhyme,dangshe kaikou sandeng yao rhyme,jiangshe kaikou erdeng jue rhyme, zengshe kaikou yideng de rhyme, zengshe kaikou sandeng zhi rhyme zhuang group, gengshe kaikou erdeng mo,mai rhyme and tongshe hekou sandeng wu,zhu rhyme. The colloquial reading form in Taocheng dialect spreads a wider range than it in Mandarin.Voice:The characteristics of the Rusheng into three voice in Taocheng dialect: the voiceless Shu words mainly belong to Yin ping and falling tone,Yang ping and falling-rising tone lessly; Voiced initials words mainly belong to Yang ping;Secondary voiced initials are mainly classified falling tone.In Taocheng dialect tone sandhi of non overlapping bigram, the tone of the ahead word has changed in "Yin Ping + Shangsheng", "Yang Ping + falling tones", "Shangsheng + Shangsheng". When the four tones combined with the light tone, the value has changed. The light tone exsits the change of pitch there. Tone sandhi in Taocheng dialect overlap bigram in nouns, the former word tone of four tones has changed.Tone sandhi overlap bigram in verb, except outside falling-rising tone, the former word tone of four tones has changed.