Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)

Influence of Hangzhou Dialect on Mandarin Speaking: Using Erhua as an Example

Authors
Shixin Shen1, *
1Linguistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: shixin.shen@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Shixin Shen
Available Online 11 July 2023.
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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_95How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Erhua; Erwei; Rhotic; Mandarin; Hangzhou dialect
Abstract

One of the phonetic differences between Mandarin and the Hangzhou dialect is the pronunciation of Mandarin erhua. According to the phonetic realizations, Chinese er-suffix can be produced as erwei and erhua: the er-suffix remains its independent syllable and tone in erwei but loses its independent syllable and tone while merging with the preceding rhyme as the concomitant action of retroflexion in erhua. This study found that Hangzhou natives performed worse than the standard speaker in speaking Mandarin erhua with the influence of the popularity of erwei and the lack of retroflex/rhotic in the Hangzhou dialect; however, younger participants showed improvement in producing Mandarin erhua compared to middle-aged participants.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 July 2023
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978-2-38476-062-6
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_95How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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