TY - JOUR
T1 - Hefei Mandarin
AU - Kong, Huifang
AU - Wu, Shengyi
AU - Li, Mingxing
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Prof. Yi Xu, Prof. Xiujuan Shi, and Dr. Ruixin Sun for their valuable suggestions. We are greatly indebted to the anonymous reviewers and the editors of Journal of the International Phonetic Association, whose comments have led to great improvement of this research. The research is partly supported by Philosophical and Social Science Grant of Anhui Province (Grant No. AHSKY2019D099), Key Humanity and Social Science Project of Anhui Education Commission (Grant No. SK2019A0668), Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Category II [Grant No. FRG2/17-18/076], and Hong Kong Baptist University Research Committee’s Start-up Grant for New Academics.
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PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Hefei Mandarin is a Chinese dialect spoken in Hefei, the capital city of
Anhui Province, China, as illustrated in Figure 1. According to The Language Atlas of China
(1987), Hefei Mandarin is a sub-branch of Jianghuai Mandarin, i.e. the
varieties of Mandarin dialects distributed between the Yangtze River and
the Huai River. While its syllable structure is relatively simple,
Hefei Mandarin has a rich vowel inventory and various types of rimes,
including three contrastive high back vowels /ɯ o ɤ/, non-nasalized vs.
nasalized vowels as syllable rimes such as /i/ vs. /ĩ/, and three
syllabic consonants [ɹ̩ ɹ̩ʷ ɻ̩] (Li 1936; Meng 1962, 1997; Li 1994,
1997; Wang 1996; Kong 2003, 2004, 2006; Kong & Zhang 2006; Kong, Wu
& Li 2019).
AB - Hefei Mandarin is a Chinese dialect spoken in Hefei, the capital city of
Anhui Province, China, as illustrated in Figure 1. According to The Language Atlas of China
(1987), Hefei Mandarin is a sub-branch of Jianghuai Mandarin, i.e. the
varieties of Mandarin dialects distributed between the Yangtze River and
the Huai River. While its syllable structure is relatively simple,
Hefei Mandarin has a rich vowel inventory and various types of rimes,
including three contrastive high back vowels /ɯ o ɤ/, non-nasalized vs.
nasalized vowels as syllable rimes such as /i/ vs. /ĩ/, and three
syllabic consonants [ɹ̩ ɹ̩ʷ ɻ̩] (Li 1936; Meng 1962, 1997; Li 1994,
1997; Wang 1996; Kong 2003, 2004, 2006; Kong & Zhang 2006; Kong, Wu
& Li 2019).
U2 - 10.1017/S0025100322000081
DO - 10.1017/S0025100322000081
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0025-1003
VL - 53
SP - 1145
EP - 1166
JO - Journal of the International Phonetic Association
JF - Journal of the International Phonetic Association
IS - 3
ER -