Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language and Cultural Communication (ICLCC 2026)

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Phonetic Investigation of the Yingtan Variety of Gan Chinese: A Comparative Analysis Based on Single-Speaker Data

Authors
Xiaotian Liu1, *
1College of Art and Science, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14218, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: xliu235@buffalo.edu
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Xiaotian Liu
Available Online 13 July 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-597-3_11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Gan Chinese; Phonetic Description; Tone and Syllable Structure; Single-Speaker Corpus
Abstract

This study investigated the speech data from a young speaker (23 years old) of Gan Chinese in Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, China. By comparing the phonemic inventory and tone systems, this study finds over all consistency in the inventory except for /ɣ/ devoicing into /x/, and a potential signal of /e/ and /ie/ merger. The study also finds the tone system revealed by data to be systematically inconsistent with previous study on Gan spoken in Yingtan and two surrounding areas in Yingtan city. Other than that, cues for perceiving entrering tones are further discussed in terms of vowel duration, rather than relying only on the presence of the coda stop. In addition, this study founds several alternations potentially attributes to language contacts especially from Mandarin, notes limitations in sample size and data scope, and raises questions for future research with more focused experimental designs.

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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language and Cultural Communication (ICLCC 2026)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 July 2026
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978-2-38476-597-3
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2352-5398
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