The Sound Change of Lexical Items in the Middle Chinese Unrounded Zhi Group with Modern Apical Vowels
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Shin, Woosun
Abstract
Apical vowels in Modern Chinese are a particularly special kind of vowels. Although in Modern Chinese these vowels came from various sounds in Middle Chinese, such a change originated in the Zhi rhyme group. Therefore the Zhi group deserves our special attention.n this Thesis we explored the historical sound change into apical vowels of the characters pronounced with dental affricates and fricatives that belonged to the unrounded rime of the Zhi group. For this purpose, as a first step we made use of the methodology of experimental phonetics to verify that the phonetic value of Modern Chinese apical vowels is significantly close to that of [)]. We also extensively reviewed previous studies in the subject of apical vowels as a background for the present thesis.inally, we used Modern Chinese dialects, pre-Modern rhyme books, as well as materials containing Sino-Korean to inquire about the historical sound change into apical vowels of the characters with dental affricates and fricatives that belonged to the unrounded rime of the Zhi group. These are some of the conclusions:1) The historical sound change into apical vowels of the characters with dental affricates and fricatives the belonged to the unrounded rime of the Zhi group followed a specific order, starting with words with jing (精), followed by zhuang (莊), zhang (章), and finally zhi (知) initial consonats.2) The process of sound change of its phonetic was [-i] →[- i] → [- ] → [- ]、[- ] .n addition, this thesis also analyzed the issues of Sino-Korean pronunciation strata. This field is still in its initial stages of development. The category of the apical vowels of the characters with dental affricates and fricatives that belonged to the unrounded rhyme of the Zhi group was taken as a starting point for future research on this topic.
Subjects
Apical Vowels
Zhi Group
Dental affricates and fricatives
Chinese dialect
Pre-Modern Chinese rhyme books
Sino-korean
Type
thesis
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