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Experimental Study on Single-Word of Yudu Dialect

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ZHANG Chunmei, LIU Huangnei

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.10.004

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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

ABSTRACT

Hakka Chinese is one of the seven major dialects in China. Yudu dialect, as one of social varieties of Hakka dialect, has great value of research. This research selected the dialect of Luoao Town as the research object, and analyzed the fundamental frequency and duration of six tones of four local male speakers. The results show that there are six tones in Luoao dialect: Tone 1 /33/, Tone 2 /22/, Tone 3 /31/, Tone 4 /53/, Tone 5 /54/, Short Tone 6 /54/. In addition, there are two findings: (1) The tone system of Yudu dialect has high and low registers, and (2) the dialect has two high-level falling tones that are merging on progress.

KEYWORDS

Hakka Chinese, Yudu dialect, single-word pattern

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US-China Foreign Language, October 2023, Vol. 21, No. 10, 406-412 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.10.004

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