睢宁方言轻声音变现象探赜

An Exploration of the Phenomenon of Soft Tone Change in Suining Dialect

轻声是因语流音变而形成的一种又轻又短的调子,它不仅表现为音长、音高、音强的弱化,同时也会呈现出对声母、韵母的影响。睢宁方言轻声字的声母、韵母在语音弱化的作用下表现为声母消失、韵母裂化等情形。鉴于此,从语音演变机制、初态说等角度探讨其成因,并在梳理睢宁话轻声音变规律的基础上对部分轻声本字失落现象进行考证。

Soft tone is a kind of light and short tone formed by the change of voice flow,which not only shows the weakening of length,pitch and intensity,but also shows the influence on initial consonants and vowels.The initial consonants and vowels of Suining dialect are disappearing and increasing under the effect of phonetic weakening.This paper discusses this phenomenon from the Angle of phonetic evolution mechanism and initial state theory,and probes into its cause.On the basis of sorting out the rule of soft tone change in Suining dialect,the author researches the phenomenon of the lost soft characters.