A Phonetic Study Of Taihe Gan Dialect

Taihe is located in the transition zone of Hakka and Gan dialects, belonging to Gan dialect. For a long time, academic studies are litter about phonetic of Taihe dialect. Based on many field surveies, this paper describs and sorts out the phonetic system of Taihe dialect. The combinative table of initials, finals, tones, and syllabary of Taihe dialect are also included. In the meantime, the paper makes a diachronic comparison on Taihe dialect and "guangyun" dialect through the description of initials, finals and tones, in order to clearly demonstrate their corresponding relationship. In addition, it describes literary and colloquial readings of Taihe dialect concretely. In general, there are two readings. A small number of words also have three. All variant pronunciation can be roughly subdivided into seven types. Many theories can find proof in the literary and colloquial readings. At last, investigates Taihe dialect’s mode of disyllabic tone sandhi. There are two disyllabic tone sandhi patterns, the neutral and non-neutral tone of the last syllable. In non-neutral tone of the last syllable pattern, the tones of the front and last word are almost not changed, except twelve Shang Sheng words with voiced obstruents inintial.Once getting into word groups, these words can change their citation tones Shang Sheng42into21, the same as Qu Sheng. In neutral tone of the last syllable pattern, the neutral tone has three categories altogether:hingh neutral tone [5]、middle neutral tone [3]、low neutral tone[21]. The disyllabic tone sandhi won’t occur when the former syllable are Yin Ping and partly Qu Sheng, others determined by the later neutral tone.