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Historical Phonology of Chinese

Historical Phonology of Chinese

Tonghe, Dong

Hardcover

Series: China Perspectives

ChineseLinguistics

ISBN10: 1032533137
ISBN13: 9781032533131
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

As an important introduction to the phonological history of Chinese, this title explores the phonological systems of the Chinese language and explains basic concepts, materials and methodologies.

Unlike many historical accounts, this book adopts a reverse chronological sequence - starting with the phonology of Modern Mandarin and modern Chinese dialects, then looking back on Early Mandarin and Middle Chinese, and ultimately ending with Old Chinese phonology. This arrangement makes the book reasonably approachable to both professionals and general readers, building up knowledge along an ascending order of difficulty, from familiar, observable facts to theoretical, speculative hypotheses. Based on the extant studies and two essential types of rhyme materials, the book reconstructs the speech sounds of Middle and Old Chinese, in terms of initials, finals and tones. It also analyses the transition and evolution of phonological systems of the Chinese language in different periods.

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