Introduction and objectives e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
1.1 Introduction and objectives
The Sui Dialect Survey was a cooperative project conducted by researchers from the Southwestern Minorities Languages and Culture Research Institute Guizhou University and the Sui Research Institute of Sandu Sui Autonomous County, Qiannan Bouyei Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province in the second half of 2011. It was carried out with the approval and assistance of the Guizhou Minorities Affairs Commission and the Guizhou Department of Education. Further data was collected by researchers from the Southwestern Minorities Languages and Culture Research Institute in cooperation with partners in Duyun city, Dushan county, Libo county all in Qiannan prefecture and Rongjiang county Qiandongnan Dong Miao Autonomous Prefecture. These partners included the Minorities Research Institute of Qiannan Normal College, Duyun municipality, the Sui Studies Association of Libo county and the Minority Affairs Bureau of Rongjiang county. The objective of the survey was to document a geographically wide-ranging and linguistically representative sample of Sui dialects and to elucidate the linguistic relationship between them. Although previous research has been carried out to this end, most notably a large-scale dialect survey conducted in 1956 SDB 1958, neither a thorough set of comparative Sui dialect data nor a comprehensive analysis of Sui dialectal differences has ever been published. The current dialect survey aims to fill this gap. In order to provide a context for the survey, the history of the Sui peoples and a historical and cultural introduction to each of the survey data points are given in chapter 2. The remainder of the work is devoted to presenting the findings of the survey. There were two main elements to the survey fieldwork: 1 collecting wordlists; and 2 conducting intelligibility tests in Recorded Text Test RTT format, using a sentence retelling method. By means of these two activities we hoped to gain an overall picture of the Sui dialect situation. Various types of analysis were applied to the wordlist data: 1 comparison of diachronic sound changes, the most widely accepted basis for subgrouping languages and dialects Campbell 2004, Huang Xing 2007, presented in chapters 3, 4 and 5; 2 lexical comparisons chapter 6; and 3 phonetic distance calculations chapter 7. The methodology and results of the intelligibility testing are presented in chapter 8. An overall summary of the survey results along with conclusions and areas for further research are given in chapter 9. Finally, the raw data which we collected on the survey can be found in the Appendices.1.2 Background
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» Introduction and objectives e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Background e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Previous research on the Sui language
» Research findings e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Origins of the Sui people and their migratory history
» Sandong SD Shuigen village, Sandong district Zhonghe ZH Hezhai hamlet, Zhonghe village
» Tangzhou TZ Meiyu village, Tangzhou district Antang AT Antang village, Tangzhou district
» Tingpai TP Xinyang village, Tingpai township Dujiang DJ Zenlei village, Dujiang township
» Banliang BL Banliang village, Tangzhou district Jiaoli JL Gaorong village, Jiaoli district
» Proto-Sui: A questionable hypothesis
» Lack of thorough and reliable reconstructions Debate over prosodic form of the proto language
» Difficulty in identifying cognates and loanwords
» Data and conventions e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Summary of argument Background
» Shared tonal developments in Yang’an Sui and Kam
» Shared tonal developments in Pandong, Western, Yang’an Sui and Kam
» Unique tonal developments in Southern Sui
» Summary Discussion Divergent tonal development in Sui dialects
» Merger of entering tones in Jiaoli JL, Pandong Merger of Tones 7 and 8 in Shuiyao SY, Southern
» Sui “voiced-high” tone value distinctiveness: An areal feature
» Tone 6 Variation in Sui phonetic tone values
» Summary of findings e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Introduction e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Prenasalised voiced stops Onsets
» Palatalised onsets From onsets to rimes: Palatalisation, labialisation and glides
» Labialised onsets From onsets to rimes: Palatalisation, labialisation and glides
» PKS -e and -ai partial merger in Tangzhou TZ PKS -
» Yang’an Shared diachronic innovations and Sui subgrouping
» Southern Central, Western, Eastern and Pandong
» PKS retentions shared by all Sui dialects Late sound changes shared by all Sui dialects
» Phonetic variation Background e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Selection of data for comparison
» Method of determining lexical similarity
» Sui and Kam Lexical similarity counts
» Sui dialects Lexical similarity counts
» Pandong Sui dialect variants
» Yang’an Sui dialect variants
» Dialect variants shared by Pandong and Yang’an Sui Southern Sui dialect variants
» Differences in semantic range
» Semantic shift due to lexical replacement
» Semantic differences due to differences in physical environment
» SD and JQ: A lexical and semantic crossover region Semantic change: Conclusion
» Conclusion e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Introduction Background: Dialectometry and Levenshtein distance LD
» Calculating Levenshtein distance Methodology
» Selection of Sui and Kam data for comparison
» Pre-processing of Sui and Kam data
» LD calculated using narrow, phonetic transcriptions
» LD calculated using broad, phonemicised transcriptions
» Sandong SD and Zhonghe ZH: the most representative varieties Cluster determinants
» Results of Sui and Kam dialect comparison
» Conclusions Introduction e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Measuring intelligibility e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Recorded Text Test RTT: Story question and answer method
» Word recognition tests Sentence completion tests
» Sentence translation tests Content question and answer tests
» Towards a new methodology: The sentence retelling L2 test
» Designing the sentences Methodology
» Translating and recording the sentences Designing the tests
» Administering the tests sampling and procedures
» Scoring the tests Methodology
» Intelligibility of Central Sui GC Intelligibility of Southern Sui SY
» Intelligibility of Yang’an Sui LW Intelligibility of Pandong Sui PD
» Methodology critique e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Visualisations Dialect clusters indicated by wordlist analysis
» Group B e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group A e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group C e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Group A sentences Group B sentences
» Group C sentences Group A sentences
» Group B sentences Group C sentences
» Initials Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata
» Initials Finals Tones e book 66 Castro Sui Dialect
» Initials Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials
» Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials
» Finals Tones Sound changes according to age strata Initials Finals
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