合音与儿化——合肥方言语音研究

Syllable Contraction and “er” Syllables—A Study of the Phonetics of the Hefei Dialect

摘要: 合音是指两个或两个以上的音节合并为一个音节的一种音变现象。早在先秦时期，合音词便已经在书面文本中出现，如：“穆公访诸蹇叔”(《左传·僖公三十三年》)。其中的“诸”就是“之于”合音。在合肥方言中就存在着丰富的合音现象，其合音词主要呈现为拼合式与融合式两种类型。值得注意的是，合肥方言中存在一组具有系统性的合音时间词，通过研究这一组词汇其内部蕴含的异读形式，确定了合肥方言中儿韵的演变。具体而言，这些合音词不仅能够反映这组时间词合音现象产生的时间序列，同时也为探究合肥方言中儿韵的历史演变过程提供了实证依据。

Abstract: Syllable contraction (SC) is a sandhi by which two or more syllables merge into one syllable. As early as the pre-Qin period, this contraction had already appeared in written texts, such as: “Mu gong fang zhu jian.” (“Zuo Zhuan-Xi Gong 33 Years”). The word “zhu” is the “zhi yu” contraction. In the Hefei dialect, there exists a rich variety of affricates, and the affricates are mainly of two types: collocative and fusional. It is worth noting that there exists a group of systematic affricative time words in Hefei dialect, and the evolution of “er” syllables in Hefei dialect is determined through the study of the variant forms contained in this group of vocabulary. Specifically, these words not only reflect the temporal sequence of this group of time words, but also provide an empirical basis for exploring the historical evolution of “er” syllables in the Hefei dialect.