湖北鹤峰方言舌根音声母/η/丢失现象及社会成因分析

The analysis of social factors result in the disappearing of velar /η/ in Hefeng dialect of Hubei province

北京话中/η/只作韵尾,而湖北鹤峰方言中出现了其作声母的现象。文章试对这一现象进行具体描述,并分类举例说明。在搜集语料的过程中发现这一现象也逐渐发生了变化,湖北鹤峰方言中舌根音声母/!/正呈逐渐丢失的趋势。

In Beijing dialect nasal consonant/η/can only appear at the end of a syllable, while in the Chinese variety spoken in Hefeng, /η/can also be used as initial consonant as well. In this thesis, the writer describes the use of initial consonant /η/in detail on the basis of abundant linguistic data, and has found that this consonant has gradually disappeared.