An Experimental Study On The Phonology Of Nanchang Dialect

Nanchang,located in the northern part of Jiangxi Province,and belongs to the Changdu dialectal area of Gan dialect.With the espectation of furthering study in this field on the basis of the previous achievements,this thesis studies the Nanchang phonology by means of experimental dialectal method.The first chapter summarizes the present studies on the Nanchang dialect,introduces the background of the research on the phonology experiment,and states the research methods and steps of this paper.The second chapter studies the acoustic characteristics of the consonants in Nanchang dialect from the aspects of duration,formant and acoustic pattern.The main conslusions are as follows:(1)There are 19 initials in Nanchang dialect,their duration has significantly positive correlation with manner of articulation,and had a weak positive correlation with place of articulation,but had no significant correlation with vowel which afte the initial;(2)The aggregation behavior existed in the acoustic space of consonant.The third chapter refers to the studies on dynamic feature and temporal pattern of the final of Nanchang dialect.The main conslusions are as follows:(1)There are 63 vowels,including 11 simple vowels,16 compound vowels,18 nasal consonant vowels and 18 plosive-ending vowels;(2)In addition to the simple vowels,the other vowels in Nanchang dialect have a larger range,and some of the vowels will deviate from the target.(3)The discreteness of simple vowels is small,that means it was stable;The discreteness of compound vowels is closely related to the distance between the first and the tail components;The discreteness of nasal consonant vowels’F1 is generally higher than F2;The discreteness of plosive-ending vowels is small,some of them are similar to sinple vowels and compound vowels,which indicates that the plosive-ending’s influence on previous vowel is not as obvious as nasal consonant endings;(4)The duration of simple vowels is related to the place of articulation;There are six types of the temporal pattern of compound vowels and nasal consonant vowels:short-long,long-short,equal length,short-long-short,short-long-medium,short-long-long;The duration of plosive-ending vowels is short,which is equal to 1/2 of Shusheng finals.The fourth chapter mainly study tone from the two perspectives of pitch and duration.The main conslusions are as follows:(1)There are seven types of the mono-syllable tone:Yinping41,Yangping 23,Shangsheng 313,Yinqu44,Yangqu 31,Yinru5,Yangru3;The bi-syllable tone pattern:tone changes when the former word is Shangsheng;(2)There is a big difference between Shusheng and Cusheng in duration.On the relative duration of mono-syllable tone:Shangsheng is longest,Yinru is shortest.On the relative duration of bi-syllable tone,the former word:Yangqu is longest,Yangru is shortest;the latter word:Yinqu is longest,Yangru is shortest.The fifth chapter is about homophony syllabary of Nanchang dialect.The sixth chapter compares and analyses the variation of phonology and the research shows that some typical phonetic features of nanchang dialect have been changed.For example:(1)The initials of some words which belong to Zhi and Zhang under Yu and Liu Group chang from[t(?)、t(?)h]to[ts、tsh];(2)The original[hu-]、[f-]is divided.;(3)The initials[n]appears because of the influence of Putonghua;(4)The ancient voiced initials change from aspirated to unaspirated;(5)The vowels of some words which belong to Bang under Xie and Zhi Group change from[i]to[ei];(6)The vowels of some words which belong to Shen、Zhen、Zeng and Geng Group change from[in]to[un]、[εn];(7)The vowel of[yot]and[io?]in some words turn into[yet];(8)The vowel of[ia(?)]in some words turns into[in];(9)There are 24 types of tone variant,of which the number of 1/3 is mutated to Putonghua.