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Lexical diffusion in sound change in the dialect of an immigrant community in Dongfeng village of Linyi city: A preliminary exploration (in Chinese)
临沂东风移民方言岛音变扩散规律初探
Zhu Junling 朱军玲
Abstract 摘要
Dongfeng Village of Linyi City in Shandong Province, PRC, is an immigrant village formed in the 1960s as part of community relocation from Mengyin County of Shandong Province due to the building of a reservoir. This paper first provides a comprehensive description of the sound changes in the Dongfeng dialect, and has identified nine major differences between the Dongfeng dialect and the surrounding local dialect in syllable initials, finals and tones. Drawing on the theory of lexical diffusion, it then explores the pattern of spreading of sound changes from the perspectives of word frequency, competing changes and residues. As a tentative conclusion, it is posited that the sound changes in Dongfeng village over a span of 40 years are the results of the competition of the dual influence from the local dialect and Mandarin. Lexical diffusion of the various types of sound changes is not only related to word frequency, but is also sensitive to word class. The word frequency effects are significant only within word classes.
Keywords 关键词
Dongfeng immigrant village 东风移民村 Immigrant dialect 移民方言 Language contact 方言接触 Lexical diffusion 词汇扩散 Competing changes and residue 竞争性演变 Word frequency and sound change 频率与变率