As a branch of southwest mandarin , suffixation of a nonsyllabic “r” to nouns is very common in Xiangy-ang dialect .The paper describes several formations of the phenomenon and discusses the characteristics of it from perspective of semantics and grammer .It finds that suffixation of a nonsyllabic “r” to nouns in Xiangyang dialect can change the semantics of the words ,which adds the emotion of “smallness” and“easiness” additionally .Suffix-ation of a nonsyllabic “r” to nouns is an important way to word formation in Xiangyang dialect .The noun with suf-fixation of a nonsyllabic “r” can be as used as a subject , a predicate , an object , an attribute modifier and an ad-verbial modifier in a sentence .%襄阳方言属于西南官话,儿化现象十分普遍。研究襄阳方言名词儿化的构成形式、特征,可以发现襄阳方言名词儿化后能改变词义,并且增添了“细小”、“轻松”的感情色彩;襄阳方言在语法上名词儿化是构词的主要手段,名词儿化后可以充当主语、谓语、宾语、定语和状语等句法成分。
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