2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on the Modern Phonetic System in Hubei Dialect though Western Materials

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23720215
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Chuo University
Principal Investigator	CHIBA Kengo 中央大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (70386564)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	中国語学 / 音韻論 / 官話 / 湖北方言
Research Abstract	This research project aimed to examine the phonetic system of Hubei dialect in the 19th-20th centuries and to reconstruct them. As is generally known, Chinese is written by their logographs, therefore it is informative to use the materials recorded in alphabetical manner to analyze the phonetic system. In this project, the situation in the late 19th century was studied through Ingle's Hankow Syllabary (1899) and a paper by Peter Parker in China Review, while that in the 20th century is discussed on some Italian materials such as De Nino's Piccolo Vocabulario Cinese-Italiano (1925) and Landi's Piccolo Vocabulario Italiano-Cinese (1939).

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