The Phonetic System Research Of Zhangjiachuan (Zhangjiachuan Town) Dialect

Hui Autonomous County of Zhangjiachuan(the following is referred to as Zhangjiachuan County),located in the southeast of Gansu Province and northeast of Tianshui City,belongs to Tianshui City.Zhangjiachuan dialect belongs to Longzhong region in Zhongyuan Mandarin.Its owning three independent tones but four in tone sandhi,the entering tone basic classified as level tone.The ancient turbid sound aspirated in modern plosive and affricate.The nasal finals mixed and there is a nasal vowel.There is a confluence of ancient initials of Ni and Lai,and before modern fine sound there is a pronunciation confluence of ancient initials Duan,Tou,Ding and ancient initials Jing,Qing,Cong.The ancient initials Jing Qing Cong Xin Xie and the ancient initials Jian Qi Qun Yi Xiao Xia before the fine sound is the same pronunciation,that is,the sharp and rounded sounds are not divided.On the basis of field investigation,this paper is guided by linguistic theory and plan to select a representative point-Zhangjiachuan Town to make records and comprehensive analysis on the phonetic characteristics of Zhangjiachuan chinese dialect.This paper using a framwork of medieval phonetic system in describing the phonetic condition of Zhangjiachuan dialect and highlight characteristics of the dialect from the comparison of the ancient and modern,the internal differences,the comparison with the Beijing tone.The full text consists of seven chapters.The first chapter,the introduction,introdu ces Zhangjiachuan geography,history,profile of the humanistic and Zhangjiachuan dia-l ect,including the attribution,internal differences and research status.It also briefly introduces the research method and the purpose and significance of the paper.The sec ond chapter,Zhangjiachuan dialect system of initials,finals and tones.The third chapter,the table homophone of Zhangjiachuan dialect.The fourth chapter,the Zhangjiachuan dia lect the contemporary phonetic changes.This chapter analyzed and summarized Zhangjiachuan dialect tone sandhi rules and Phonetic Change of softlyand retroflex suffixation through a large number of linguistic facts,showing the specific performance of dialectsin the flow of speech.The fifth chapter,comparing the Zhangjiachuan dialect of modern Beijing voice,by comparing to explore the synchronic correspondence law.The sixth chapter,comparing the Zhangjiachuan dialect of medieval phonology,exploring the dia-chronic evolution law of the Zhangjiachuan dialect and revealing the voice characteristics.The seventh chapter is the conclusion.This paper mainly adopts the methods of investigation,description,comparison,statistics and other linguistic research methods and experimental phonetics.Field investigation is the premise of this paper,it provided a detailed corpus and also guaranted the objectivity and authenticity of the description and analysis in this paper The comparison of synchronic and diachronic perspectives presents the overall appearance and development of the phonetic system of Zhangjiachuan dialect.