Title: Changes of Ancient "Entering Tone" in Dialect of South Fujian
Abstract: This paper examines the changes of entering tone in ancient Chinese in mainland Fujian dialect.Firstly,the distributions of the syllable numbers of different tones in nowadays Fujian dialects are carefully calculated in order to have an overview of the main trend of changing.Secondly,the literary words and the colloquial words,following the order of MC voiceless initials,MC voiced initials and semi-voiced initials,are investigated mainly in Shipei dialect,which still maintains MC voiced initials.At the same time the corresponding secondary are analyzed and the distribution characteristics of the literary words and the colloquial words are described.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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