Evidence of high-frequency colloquial forms moving towards the yin-ping tone
常用口语字阴平化的例证
Chung-yu Chen 陈重瑜

Abstract 摘要
Between Middle Chinese and the 1963-85 system of Peking Mandarin, about 454 characters have been flowing into or towards the Yin-Ping category and 77 out of the category, forming a ratio of 85.5% to 14.5%. A decided majority of the out-flowing characters can readily be attributed to an analogy of certain high-frequency characters that bear obvious graphic similarities. On the other hand, there seems to be a tendency for high-frequency colloquial forms to change to Yin-Ping. Five types of evidence are submitted to substantiate this claim. They are found in 1) reduplicates, 2) onomatopoetic forms, 3) monosyllabic verbs, 4) colloquial (as opposed to literary) vocabulary of a character, 5) colloquial (as opposed to literary) reading(s) of a character. A total of 156 examples are cited here.

从中古音到1963-85 之间，大约有454 个字流入或流向阴平调，而流出的字数大约是77个字；二者成 85.5% 与14.5%之比。流出的字例绝大多数显示出受到常用近形字读音的影响。而流入阴平的字例却甚少有明显的近形字读音的影响。作者认为高频率的口语词（字）有变向阴平的倾向。本文举出五种类型的字例以证明这一点：1）重叠词，2）象声词，3）单音节动词，4）一个字在口语词条与文言词条里的不同读音，5）一个字的语音与读音的差异。本文一共列举156个字例。

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