caa a22 4500 386386498 CHVBK 20180307112059.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002510030000298X doi S002510030000298X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002510030000298X Fengtong Zhang (Sichuan University, China) The initials of Chengdu speech as compared with Standard Chinese [Elektronische Daten] [Zhang Fengtong] Chengdu speech is the received pronunciation among the various Sichuan dialects spoken by ten million people in Southwest China. In this short paper, I intend to discuss the characteristics of the initials of Chengdu speech as compared with Standard Chinese. The following abbreviations and conventions are used: CDH = Chengduhua, i.e. Chengdu speech of Chinese. PTH = Putonghua, Standard Chinese based on Beijing pronunciation. CPA = the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Chinese characters are transliterated into CPA first when they are cited as examples. A phonetic transcription of CDH pronunciation follows, in square brackets. Tone symbols are placed before the CDH syllable: [̄] High Level, [̖] Low Falling, [̀] High Falling, [̬] Fall-rise. For PTH the tone symbol is placed above the CPA nuclear vowel letter e.g. mā High Level, má High Rising, m Fall-rise, mà High Falling. Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1989 Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 15/2(1989-07), 59-68 0025-1003 15:2<59 1989 15 IPA https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510030000298X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510030000298X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fengtong Zhang (Sichuan University, China) NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the International Phonetic Association Cambridge University Press 15/2(1989-07), 59-68 0025-1003 15:2<59 1989 15 IPA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge