From middle Chinese to modern Cantonese (Part II)
从中古汉语到现代粤语(第二部分)
Matthew Y. Chen 陈渊泉; John Newman
Abstract 摘要
"In the first installment of this tripartite article, we dealt with the tonal and consonantal processes Cantonese had undergone since Middle Chinese. In this second part we will examine the historical changes affecting the Cantonese finals. Part 2 contains the following sections:
Part 2.
V. Cantonese Vowel Shift
VI. The realignment of inner and outer rimes
VII. The genesis of *TRI-SEG
VIII. Late allophonic rules
Footnotes to sections V-VIII"
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 12 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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