A study of Taiwanese Dialect in Penghu County’s Shiyeu Township

[[abstract]]The study introduces from the “traditional dialectology” to get an insight to the current status of the Taiwanese dialect in Penghu Shiyeu Towship, adopting the field survey methods, corpus analysis and language of comparative law, in order to record and analyze the phonological and lexical characteristics in the Shiyeu region. The purpose of the study aims at: 1. Investigate and compile phonological system of the Shiyeu Taiwanese dialect, in order to understand the voice characteristics of the dialect. 2. Compare the dialect with other secondary dialects related to Taiwanese dialect, compiling the sounding, rhyming and toning characteristics of the Shiyeu Taiwanese dialect. 3. Compile special vocabulary of Shiyeu Township through investigation and comparison of vocabulary. 4. Complete the vocabulary draft for the Shiyeu Township Taiwanese dialect to be used as significant reference language source for preparing the Taiwanese dialect teaching materials. The conclusion of the study includes the following: ? 1. The Shiyeu Township Taiwanese dialect tends to orient towards the Pienchuan Accent, while preserving a significant difference from the common accent in Kaohsiung City. 2. With respect to vowels, there are seven major vowels /a、o、e、e 、?、i、u/ in Hejie, Zhumen and Xiaomen villages, and only the /e/ and /?/ vowels have bee preserved; while there are only five major vowels /a、o、e、i、u/ in other villages, generally regardless of /?/ and /o/, while “Gu”and “Gu” share the same sound. 3. With respect to consecutive tone sandhi, the intonation (yin 2) is modulated to middle tone /51/ > /35/, while the intonation (yang 5) and intonation (yang 7) are modulated to lower tone /13、33/ > /11/ ,The intonation (yin 3) and the intonation (yin 2) receiving /?// are modulated into two categories /11/ > /51、55/；/3/ > /51、55/ and quite different from other Pienchuan accent. 4. The “□Ah” tone-sandhi is mainly the “fixed low tone,” stem will be pronounced as the original tone-sandhi, while the “Ah” is pronounced as the fixed lower tone /11/, which is significantly different from the Taiwanese Youshi accent. 5. The “Epenthesis” phenomenon of affixed stem is one characteristics of the Shiyeu Taiwanese dialect. This “Epenthesis” phenomenon is however not found in Zhumen village, which shows the uniqueness of the secondary dialect in Zhumen village. 6. The Shiyeu folks tend to dwarf on their own language while possessing high tolerance to foreign accents