Dou in Kaifeng Dialect

摘要

Compared with dou in Mandarin, dou in Kaifeng dialect shows a higher frequency of use and reflects a richer diversity of usages. The investigation finds that dou in Kaifeng dialect has two pronunciations of, i.e. dou_(k1) [təu33] and dou_(k2_ [təu214]. Among all the usages of dou_(k1), four of them correspond to that of dou in Mandarin, one demonstrates a unique feature, and the rest of the usages of dou_(k1), together with that of dou_(k2), largely correspond to that of jiu in Mandarin. This new collection of data can shed light on the study of dou in Chinese.