Zhushan Mandarin

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, vol. 52, pp. 309–327

Abstract

Zhushan Mandarin ( ) is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese (ISO 639-3; code: cmn) spoken in the Zhushan county ( ), which belongs to the city of Shiyan ( ) in Hubei Province ( ), the People’s Republic of China. As shown in Figure 1, the county borders the city of Chongqing ( ) to the south and Shaanxi Province ( ) to the north. It has an area of 3,586 km² and a population of about 4.7 million residents (Hubei Province Annals Committee 2017). The general consensus is that it is a Mandarin dialect (LAC 2012). However, there have been debates on the proper classification of this dialect as belonging to the Jianghuai Mandarin group ( ) (e.g. Coblin 2005, X. B. Liu 2007) or to the Southwestern Mandarin group ( ) (e.g. Ting 1996, X. C. Liu 2005, L. Li 2009).

Authors 2

1. Yiya Chen Aachen

   Leiden University

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   Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC

2. Li Guo

   Shanghai International Studies University

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   Shanghai International Studies