This new study of a Chinese dialect is by Professor Anne O. Yue-Hashimoto of Washington University, Seattle. The dialect sutdied is that of Suixi in the Leizhou peninsula in Guangdong. The Suixi dialect, like Hainanese, belongs to one of the four districts which comprise the dialect area of Southern Min, but as it is more markedly different from Xiamen, the typical Southern Min dialect, it has more a character of its own.

        This work is the latest fruit of a comprehensive study of a Chinese dialect from the standpoint of contemporary linguistic theory.