Southern Wu Chinese Phonology Research

Author: Cao Zhiyun
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The research methods of this book mainly include field research, induction, and comparative methods. When discussing the changes in Southern Wu dialect, we pay special attention to observing the issues from the perspective of language contact and summarizing the patterns. Practice has shown that this perspective is very useful for studying the formation and development changes of dialect clusters. If we can regard this type of research as a method, perhaps we can call it the "method of linguistic and cultural contact."