Investigation And Study On Phonetic System Of Wangcang County’s Dialect In Sichuan Province

All the phonetic materials used in this paper are taken from the field investigation.As per the phonoligical system of Sichuan Dialect(Sichuan University’s Sichuan dialect phonology writing group 1960)(四川方言音系),Wangcang(旺苍)dialect has no distinction between jiantuan(尖团),pingqiao(平翘)and rusheng(入声),which is somehow different from that of Chengdu(成都)dialect.Based on this investigation and the data arrangement and analysis,it is found that the dialect spoken in Yingcui(英萃),Mumen(木门)and Yanzi(燕子)the three towns have some phonetic features,such as jiantuan(尖团)and pingqiao(平翘),but do not have rusheng(入声).However,The dialects spoken in Donghe(东河),Gucheng(鼓城)and Guohua(国华),the three towns poesses all the above mentioned features.Generally speaking,most of Wangcang’s(旺苍)towns have preserved some special phonemic phenomena,even some places have retained rusheng(入声).rusheng(入声)is found in Donghe(东河),but only limited in a few words,and is about to disappear soon.Gucheng(鼓城)and Guohua(国华)have preserved rushing mostly,they’re both showing two trend:the flat rising tone which is close to Donghe(东河)rusheng(入声);the flat falling tone which tends to the yangping(阳平).All six dialect points’jiantuan(尖团)words are in the transitional stage of palatalization.It can be distinguished regularly in its’pingqiao(平翘)raised tongue,a small number of ancient jing group(精组)、zhi group(知组)and zhao group(照组)words are mixed up.Wangcang dialect also has some systematical variant in its’pronunciation of,for instance,,we can find voice fricative in bang group(帮组)consonant,such as pz-/p(?)-/phz-/ph(?)-/m(?)-,the dialect spoken in Donghe(东河)and Gucheng(鼓城)is only as an exception.Some The nucleus vowels have two pronunciation----a and e,and the former is proved to be colloquial pronunciation and the latter is literary reading.This paper has 5 chapters.The first chapter is the introduction.This chapter mainly introduces the topic,research purpose,research method,research status of Sichuan(四川)and Wangcang(旺苍)dialect,geographical position,administrative division and population distribution of wangcang,and related data,methods and symbols.The second chapter refers to the phonology.This chapter mainly introduces the phonology of the following six dialects:Yingcui(英萃),Mumen(木门),Yanzi(燕子),Donghe(东河),Gucheng(鼓城)and Guohua(国华)and its’basic features which gives a detail explanation to the tone pattern and the unitary tongue position.The third chapter shows the historical evolution of Wangcang(旺苍)dialect.This chapter mainly compares the internal phonetics of each point of Wangcang,reveals the rules of its phonetic evolution,and discusses the specific evolution.The fourth chapter is the comparison of Wangcang dialect with Huguang dialect(湖广话)and“Nanlu dialect”(南路话).This chapter mainly compares the distinctive features of"Huguang dialect"(湖广话)and"Nanlu dialect"(南路话)in terms of tone,consonant and vowel.By contrast,it’s pointed out that Wangcang dialect belonging to"Huguang dialect"(湖广话)has more characteristics of"nanlu dialect"(南路话).The last chapter is the conclusion.