《醒世姻缘传》(以下简称《醒》)的作者问题,一直是研究的焦点,我们在致力于对作者问题外缘考证的同时,也可以从《醒》透露出来的语音特点寻找信息。这部小说采用山东方言进行写作是毫无疑问的,《凡例》中云:“本传造句涉俚,用字多鄙,惟用东方土音从事。”这里所说的“东方土音 The author of “Awakening Marriage” (hereinafter referred to as “awakening”) has always been the focus of research. While devoting itself to textual research on the author’s problems, we can also look for information from the phonetic features revealed by “awakening”. There is no question that this novel is written in Shandong dialect. There is no doubt about the “example” in the cloud: "The traditional Chinese saying goes: