中央研 究院历史语言研究所集刊-古文古籍-The Phonology of a Gyarong Dialect.pdf

THE PHONOLOGY OF A GYARONG DIALECT KUN CHANG Academia Sinica and University of California, Berkeley The Gyarong dialect whose phonological system I describe here is that spoken in Tzuta, a village formerly in the Lifan district of Szechuan (it is now in the district of Li in the Szechuan Autonomous Region for the Tibetans). I collected the material cited in 1943, while working in a research project headed by Professor Fang-kuei Li at Yenching University (Chengtu). This dialect has twelve stops ~,kh, ~ 1 ~h,.2:, _!, th, i, E. ph, ~), ten fricatives CE. ~ ~ ~, ~, ~ ~..:. :1, D, four nasals lJ!,~, E m), two semivowels (j,. w), and five vowels Ci, ~~ ~, 0. I cannot say whether tones are phonemic. When confronted with what seemed to be homonyms, my informant made distinctions on the basis of tone,e. g. temua eye with high level tones on both syllables, temua steamed bread with mid level tones on both syllables, TAO and termi man with high level tones on both syllables, termi a name, with high tone on the first syllable and high falling tone on the second, In connected texts, however, the tones vary, and I have been unable to correlate this variation with anything in the surrounding environment. 1. The stops, classified by point of articulation, are: velar domal dental labia) k 1 t p kh ~