Research on the Modern Phonetic System in Hubei Dialect though Western Materials

本研究旨在考察19 -20世纪湖北方言的语音系统，并对其进行重构。众所周知，汉语是用文字来书写的，因此用字母顺序记录的材料来分析语音系统是很有帮助的。本项目通过英格尔的《汉口音节表》（1899）和彼得·帕克在《中国评论》上发表的一篇论文研究了19世纪后期的情况，同时通过德·尼诺的《中外短笛词汇表》（1925）和兰蒂的《中外短笛词汇表》（1939）等意大利材料探讨了20世纪的情况。

This research project aimed to examine the phonetic system of Hubei dialect in the 19th-20th centuries and to reconstruct them. As is generally known, Chinese is written by their logographs, therefore it is informative to use the materials recorded in alphabetical manner to analyze the phonetic system.In this project, the situation in the late 19th century was studied through Ingle's Hankow Syllabary (1899) and a paper by Peter Parker in China Review, while that in the 20th century is discussed on some Italian materials such as De Nino's Piccolo Vocabulario Cinese-Italiano (1925) and Landi's Piccolo Vocabulario Italiano-Cinese (1939).