The Phonetic Study Of Liangzhou Dialect In Gansu Province

Wuwei City is located in the northwest of Gansu Province,eastern end of the Hexi Corridor.Liangzhou District is situated in the middle of Wuwei City,east of Lanzhou,west of Jinchang,Zhangye.The northern part of Wuwei is separated from Inner Mongolia by the Tengger Desert,its southern part goes straight to the Qilian Mountains.Since ancient times,it has been not only a transportation hub connecting the Central Plains to the but also an important city for long-term gathering,exchange and integration of various ethnic groups.Therefore,the pronunciation of the Liangzhou dialect is unique.In terms of dialect division,according to the "Zoning of Mandarin Dialects"(1985)and the "Atlas of Chinese Chinese Dialects: Chinese Dialect Volume"(2012),Liangzhou dialect belongs to the Lanyin official dialect of the Mandarin dialect.After the author’s investigation,the phonetics of the Liangzhou(urban area)dialect today have certain academic value,so we take the pronunciation of the Liangzhou(urban area)dialect as the research object to describe the phonetic characteristics of the Liangzhou dialect,and at the same time study the huge differences in the tone conclusions of the Liangzhou dialect of the former scholars.In the introduction part of the first chapter,we mainly sorted out the research status of various dialects and their multilingual contact in Gansu,on this basis,we explained the purpose,research significance,research focus and research difficulties,listed the research methods we adopted and the source of the corpus of this paper,and made a more detailed explanation of the phonetic consistency.In the second chapter,we mainly described the phonetic overview of Liangzhou and the current state of multilingual contacts today,and then described in detail the phonetic system of the Liangzhou dialect in Gansu,where including 26 vowels,29 vowels,and 2 tones.Based on the actual corpus,we produced a brief table of phonological flattening and a detailed list of initials and finals of Liangzhou dialect,which explained the main characteristics of the combination of initials and finals of Liangzhou dialect.In the third chapter,we have developed a homophone vocabulary of the Liangzhou dialect.In the fourth chapter,we analyzed the sound change of Liangzhou dialect today from a synchronic perspective,and then we analyzed the two-character hyphenation of Liangzhou dialect today,and further distinguished the tone and conjunction of the Liangzhou dialect.On the basis of distinguishing intonation,we analyzed the connections between exclusive tone and shared tone,strong tone and weak tone,single tone and intonation and conjunction tone in Liangzhou dialect tones,and we analyzed the soft nature and characteristics of Liangzhou dialect on the phenomenon of two-character group heavy light phonetic words.We described the three-character group of the continuation by combining the two-character group continuation,and according to the tightness between the combinations of the internal structure of the three-character group,we divided it into "1+2" type and "2+1" type.In the fifth chapter,we compared Liangzhou dialect today with the Middle phonology,then analyzed the ancient and modern evolution of the Liangzhou dialect’s vowels and tones,and discussed the types and conditions under which the“泥(ni)母(mu)”of the Liangzhou dialect is pronounced as the“来(lai)母(mu)”.Finally,we summarized the different readings of“文白(Wenbai)with certain regularities in the Liangzhou dialect.In the sixth chapter,we compared the "Overview of Gansu Dialects" with the phonetics of today’s Liangzhou dialects,and summarized the similarities and differences between the two from three aspects: initial,final and tone.The concluding part summarized the full text and points out the innovations and shortcomings of the article.The first innovation point is that the author conducted field investigation on the corpus of this paper,which described the phonetic system and phonetic evolution characteristics of the Liangzhou dialect in detail and in ancient and modern times.The second innovation is that we have fully collected words with local dialect colors,and on this basis,we have investigated and studied the intonation and conjunction of Liangzhou dialect for the first time.The third innovation point is that we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the huge differences in tone of the Liangzhou dialect by the former sage scholars,and put forward our views on the merging of tuning categories and the determination of modulation patterns.The shortcomings of the article are that we are limited by the limited time for writing the paper,and the author’s research level is limited,so we did not conduct fieldwork on the various representative townships in Liangzhou’s jurisdiction,and we did not compare them with the dialects of Liangzhou urban areas.