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Title:: A New Exploration of Chinese Cognate Dialect Comparison from the Perspective of Different Language Environments

Keywords:: cognate dialects in different language environments; language contact; dialect in contact; dialect comparison

Abstract:: The history of frequent migration of the Han nationality has resulted in the differentiation and integration of Chinese dialects, and led to the spread and evolution of Chinese dialects outside China. In different language environments, cognate dialects have changed in different directions and to different degrees. A comparative study of Chinese cognate dialects and their variants in different places can effectively investigate the different influences of external language environment on cognate dialects on the premise of a clear contact background, and explore their influence mechanism; at the same time, the spatial differences formed by cognate dialects and their variants in different language environments can be used to deduce the time chain of evolution. On the other hand, the relatively stable components can be seen as the presentation of the core characteristics of Chinese dialects in the context of language contact.