本课题的研究有助于汉语方言史和汉语方言学史的构建。

This subject will be helpful to the establishment of the history of chinese dialect and the history of chinese dialectology .

鲁国尧，男，1937年生，南京大学中文系教授、博士生导师、中国音韵学研究会会长，主要研究汉语音韵学、历史方言学。

Phonologist. Born in November 1937, Taixing, Jiangsu Province. Graduated from Beijing University and taught at Nanjing University. Research Fields: History of Chinese Language.

虽然吴方言一向是方言学研究的热点，但常熟方言作为一个县级市的方言却很少得到人们的关注。

Though Wu dialect is a hot research subject, little attention is paid to the dialect of Changshu which is a county of Wu area.