Author(s)

Hongjie Wang, Yonghong Li

Corresponding Author

Yonghong Li

Abstract

This paper mainly study the monosyllabic tones of Lixian dialect, and makes a quantitative analysis of it with the method of experimental phonetics. Through the experiment, it concludes that the dialect has four tones: yinping (41), yangping (34), shang (51) and qu (44). Lixian dialect belongs to Qinlong piece of zhongyuan Mandarin, and its tone development is in line with the evolution rule of zhongyuan Mandarin. The duration mode of the four monosyllabic tones is T1>T2>T4>T3.

Keywords

Lixian dialect; monosyllabic tones; experimental phonetics