The Study of South Min Dialect in Tamsui, Taipei County

• Main Author: 王桂蘭
• Other Authors: 張屏生
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13623243058790359773

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 台灣文化及語言文學研究所 === 98 === Tamsui, Taipei County, is one of the old Tang-uann accent, which is seldom in Taiwan. This essay discusses the Tang-uann accent from the points of sound patterns, including initials, rhymes and tones. Along with the basic traditional linguistics, the study makes use of the methods of the fieldwork from the geography of languages, which deals with the distribution through history and space of languages. There are three purposes in the study. First, it records the sound patterns in the Tamsui now and compares the same dialect system of Tang-uann with Taipei, Kinmen and Ma-kong. Second, by comparing the lexicons, it lists special local terms in Tamsui and compares the differences among the three places. It picks out some of the special terms to use for the fieldwork of the linguistic geography and draws maps of the distribution. Besides the sound patterns, it also records the local folklores and sayings, which preserves the language and the culture. It combines the theory and the practical fieldwork as well as the historical study. It gets three results. First, from the points of the sound patterns, Tamsui still preserves the features of the Tang-uann accent with a little changes. The words that rhyme with 科(kho) and 居(ki), which are spoken as /e/ and // separately, are spoken as /e/ and /i/ gradually. The lower first tone is changed into low level tone with some words are changed into mid level tone which is influenced by the dominant accent of Taiwanese. Second, the dialect maps along with the dialect diffusion, the transformation of a language mainly starts from the center part of a city. The phenomenon also occurs in Tamsui. It starts from the center part of the town, which effects its neighborhood. The more far from the center part, the more original sound patterns preserved. Third, the special local lexicons are produced according to the different regions. Every place has its own features of the culture background. Mixing up history and geography, they will produce their own special terms that are different from other places or have territorial terms, which sometimes is stronger than the terms that are used for judging the accents of Chiang-chiu and Chuan-chiu dialects. Those terms break up the boundary of the Chiang-chiu and Chuan-chiu and are able to be collected and developed.