Survey And Research On Phonetic Differences Between The New Variety And The Old Variety Of Anqing Dialect

This article mainly takes the Anqing dialect pronunciation as the research object,focusing on describing the differences between the new variety and the old variety of Anqing dialect.Through making a dialect survey of two old informants and two new informants by fieldwork,this article sorts out the phonology and the sound collage rule.Meanwhile,this article chooses the most distinctive phonetic features to design the questionnaire and investigates by using the social linguistics theory method.Finally,count and analyze the data.The chapter 3 and 4 describe the difference and the survey data in detail.The study reveals that the most distinctive phonetic features between the new and the old variety are finals and initials,while tones are the least distinctive features.There are some differences from the perspective of the phonetic variables such as: the Yi(疑)initial gradually becomes to zero initial;the“[t?]”initial group increases in Zhuang(庄)group;the Xie(蟹)group pays more attention to literary reading than colloquial pronunciation;the [(?)] finals tend to disappear;words with rhymes containing a rounded front vowel have increased.Moreover,this paper has also briefly analyzes the reasons of the different pronunciation between the new and the old variety,which includes both the internal factor(the economy principle)and the external factor(the social factors).The mandarin’s affection is the main reason.Besides,age,gender,and degree of education and language environment also have impact on Anqing dialect when using it.The reasonable forecast on the trend of Anqing dialect is that it will keep its own stable voice features and get closer to mandarin at the same time.