A Study On The Phonological System Of Yongqing Dialect

Yongqing County is located in the central part of Hebei Province,and in the middle section of the Beijing-Tianjin corridor.The county is 67 kilometers away from Beijing and 64 kilometers away from Tianjin.Because of the special geographical location,its dialect has important research value.This paper takes Yongqing County Li Lancheng Town dialect(hereinafter referred to as the "Yongqing Dialect")sound system as the research object.Firstly,field investigations are carried out based on Dialect Investigation Word List and Dialect Survey Vocabulary,and then the method of description and comparison is used to systematically reveal the voice features of Yongqing Dialect.This paper consists of seven parts.The first chapter is a preface,introducing the geographical location,history and demographic profile of Yongqing County,expounding the present research situation of Yongqing Dialect and explaining the object,methods,significance of this research and the situation of pronunciation collaborators.The second chapter is a description of the phonology.The Yongqing Dialect has24 initials,37 vowels and 4 tones.The third chapter is an enumeration of the homophony syllabary of Yongqing Dialect,and reveals the law of the coordination between tone and rhyme.The fourth chapter is an analysis of the phonetic changes in Yongqing dialect,including tone sandhi,neutral tone,retroflex suffixation,literary and colloquial readings and other phonetic changes.When two words are read together,Yangping and Shangsheng are used as front words,a change of tone is common.When Yangping is used as the front word,the tone pitch becomes 55,when the Sangsheng sound is used,the tone pitch changes to 22,24 or 35.When grammatical functional words are used as suffixes,its tone value will be affected by the preceding word.The phenomenon of retroflex suffixation is rich,there are 27 r-ending retroflexion in dialect.The phenomenon of literary and colloquial readings is embodied in consonant,vowel and tone,and it mainly exists in entering tone words.At the same time,there are other phonetic changes in Yongqing dialect,such as speech synthesis,domestication,foreignization and so on.The fifth chapter is the comparison between the phonetic system of Yongqing dialect and that of Beijing dialect.Yongqing dialect has two more initials and one vowel less than Beijing dialect.The tone value of Yongqing dialect and Beijing dialect is different.The sixth chapter is a comparison between the phonological tone of Yongqing dialect and that of the middle ancient phonetic tone.The evolution law of initials and vowels in Yongqing Dialect is basically the same as that in Beijing.The laws of tone evolution differ because ancient Rusheng is divided into different tones.40% of the voiceless Rusheng belong to Yinping,33% to Qusheng,18% to Shangsheng and 9%to Yangping.Among them,there are more characters in Yinping,Shangsheng and Qusheng than in Beijing,and fewer words in Yangping than those in Beijing.The seventh chapter is a conclusion,briefly describing the phonetic characteristics of Yongqing Dialect,and pointing out the shortcomings of this paper.