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Hefei Mandarin

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Huifang Kong ,
Shengyi Wu Open the ORCID record for Shengyi Wu [Opens in a new window]  and
Mingxing Li Open the ORCID record for Mingxing Li [Opens in a new window]
Huifang Kong
Affiliation:
Department of Foreign Languages, Anhui Jianzhu University dorahf@163.com
Shengyi Wu*
Affiliation:
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shaoxing University
Mingxing Li
Affiliation:
Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University mingxingli@hkbu.edu.hk
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Correspondence should be addressed to: Shengyi Wu, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shaoxing University. Email: wushengyi88@gmail.com
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Hefei Mandarin is a Chinese dialect spoken in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, China, as illustrated in Figure 1. According to The Language Atlas of China (1987), Hefei Mandarin is a sub-branch of Jianghuai Mandarin, i.e. the varieties of Mandarin dialects distributed between the Yangtze River and the Huai River. While its syllable structure is relatively simple, Hefei Mandarin has a rich vowel inventory and various types of rimes, including three contrastive high back vowels /ɯ o ɤ/, non-nasalized vs. nasalized vowels as syllable rimes such as /i/ vs. /ĩ/, and three syllabic consonants [ɹ̩ ɹ̩ʷ ɻ̩] (Li 1936; Meng 1962, 1997; Li 1994, 1997; Wang 1996; Kong 2003, 2004, 2006; Kong & Zhang 2006; Kong, Wu & Li 2019).

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , December 2023 , pp. 1145 - 1166
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