A Sociolinguistic Study Of Handan Dialect’s Phonetics

This paper, focusing on the Handan dialect, describes the phonetic system of the dialect according to the filedwork on Du Jia Si village. And emphasis on entering-tone characters, investigates, compares and analyses the main features of the new variety and the old variety. Using the method of Sociolinguistics to analyze the phonetic variation caused by various social factors, and explains the Glottal stop dropping modes from the internal change terms.The whole paper is divided into six chapters:The first chapter is the introduction:including a case study and literature review.The second chapter is the investigation object and survey method.The third chapter is the phonetic system of Handan dialect.The fourth chapter is the relationship between glottal stop dropping and phonetic structure pattern.The fifth chapter is the relationship between the glottal stop dropping and degree of education.The sixth chapter is the relationship between the glottal stop dropping and age.The innovation of this paper is carried out a detailed investigation by the method of Social Linguistics on entering-tone characters of a northern village, and discusses a variety of social factors that cause the variation. According to the investigation and analysis, this paper believes that with the development of social economy and the influence of dialects contact, the entering-tone of Handan dialect had variated. age and degree of education are the most important factors which causes phonetic variations.