CREAKY VOICE AND THE DIALECTAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN TAIZHOU AND WUZHOU WU
嘎裂聲和吳語台婺分界
Xiaonong Zhu　朱曉農

Abstract 摘要
This paper examines the linguistic affiliation of a small area of Jinhua district at the boundary to Taizhou district, Zhejiang province. The dialects used in this area are classified under the Wuzhou sub-group of Wu. According to the linguistic intuition of the informants from that narrow area, however, the local dialects are closer to the Taizhou than to the Wuzhou sub-group. Normalised fundamental frequencies of the yin-qu tone of a dialect in that area is compared with those of Taizhou and Wuzhou. It is found that the yin-qu pitch of the dialect under investigation is similar to those of Taizhou dialects. The most striking phonetic feature which the area shares with Taizhou is creaky voice associated with the shangsheng tones. Based on these findings, I suggest that the boundary between the Wuzhou and Taizhou sub-groups be moved westward to the Dapan mountain ridge and the dialects of that area be reclassified and included in the Taizhou sub-group. In addition, this paper suggests that the so-called Huangyan "mid-glottal stop" described by Chao Yuen Ren in 1928 is actually creaky voice.

本文考察浙江金華地區靠近台州的一小塊地區的方言歸屬。當地的方言是歸在吳語婺州片下。但是，根據當地人的語言直感，他們覺得更接近吳語台州片。我們調查了當地三個鄉村的方言，發現它們有很多語音現像與台州方言接近，而不同於婺方言。例如這三處的陰去聲都是高平調，與全台州的方言一致，但與它們所屬的磐安縣以及鄰近的金華地區的方言都不一樣。最引人傾耳的特徵是它們與台州方言一樣，上聲帶有嘎裂聲。根據這些發現，我們建議把台州片和婺州片的方言分界往西挪到大盤山脊，把本文考察的一小片地區划歸台州片。另外，本文還澄清了自趙元任以來的一個語音之謎：過去大家稱為＂中喉塞＂的其實是＂嘎裂聲＂。

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Creaky voice　嘎裂聲 broken tone　中折調 Wu　吳語 Taizhou　台州 Wuzhou　婺州 dialectal boundary 方言分界

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