| 英文摘要 |
As a branch of the Southern Min Dialect, the Chaochou Subdialect differs remarkably from its peers of Chuanchou, Changchou, and Shiamen subdialects, which are available in Fujian areas. Typically, there are 18 consonants in the sound inventory of this subdialect, with no -n, -t codas exist nowadays as they did in earlier ages. There are other phonological features differentiating it from the Southern Min Dialect, which are reported in word books such as Associating Sound Beats with Wood Chopping (1915), Fifteen Sounds of the Chaochou Dialect (1937), and Additional Three Consonants for the Original Fifteen Sounds in the Chaochou Dialect (1965). These works provided different ways of guei-tz, or distributing example items to their corresponding syllables in a particular phonological system. Through a systematic comparison of these pieces, the author intends to address the phonological distinctions they highlight and issues pertaining to these differences. |