Phonetic experiment on the Changchun dialect pronunciation of individual words guan yichun

This is a study of the dialect pronunciation of individual words among the residents of Changchun using the methods of experimental phonology and comparative studies. The subjects are divided into two age groups, the young and the middle- and old-aged. The basebands of the recordings are analysed using PRAAT software and after follow-up process the T-value of each group is placed in comparison with the 5-tier result of conventional study on the same subjects. The analyses of the experimental results are based on the theories in the phoneme, experimental phonology and differentiating phonetics. The conclusions are: the basic characters of the tones in the two age groups are the same, the 5-tier values of the two age groups very slightly, the young group has a bigger range of tones than the middle- and old- age group, and the changing mode of tones is the core of dialects and in Changchun this mode has very little influence on the learning of Putonghua.