INVESTIGATION OF THE CONSONANT ENDINGS OF THE CHAOSHAN DIALECT: A RESULT OF LANGUAGE CONTACT AND HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION

INVESTIGATION OF THE CONSONANT ENDINGS OF THE CHAOSHAN DIALECT: A RESULT OF LANGUAGE CONTACT AND HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION

This thesis studies the inter-group variation of the consonant endings among five principal subgroups of the Chaoshan dialect, a branch of the South Min dialect in Eastern Guangdong Province, from the perspective of language contact and horizontal transmission. I conduct a quantitative study to pres...

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Main Author: Chen, Jin
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2020
Subjects:
Consonant Endings
Chaoshan Dialect
Language Contact
Horizontal Transmission
Cluster Analysis
Chinese Studies
Comparative and Historical Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/903
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1948&context=masters_theses_2

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