Readers 读者
Causes of tonal split of the departing-tone characters with Middle Chinese voiced obstruent initials in Chaozhou dialects. (In Chinese)
潮州话中古浊去字今读分化的原因
Ligang Dai 戴黎刚
Abstract 摘要
The phenomenon that characters with Middle Chinese voiced obstruent initials are now read with Yangqu 阳去 (lower departing) and Yangshang 阳上 (lower rising) tones in Chaozhou dialects has attracted much attention from linguists. It is widely held that those characters read with Yangqu tone in Chaozhou dialects are inherent to the colloquial layer whereas those read with Yangshang belong to the literary layer, resulting from influence of northern dialects. In this study, we analyse the mergence of colloquial layer and literary layer in Chaozhou dialects. And we find out some similar layers in other Minnan dialects by comparison. So we put forward a new account: those now read with Yangqu (such as bu 步, di 地, jiu 旧, fang 饭) reflect influence of central Minnan 闽南 dialect while those now read with Yangshang (such as pei 佩, you 右, feng 凤, hui 会) are inherent.
Subject Keywords 主题词
Chaozhou dialects 潮州话 Departing tone 浊去 Voiced initials 分调 Tonal splits Cause 原因
Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.47, no.1 (January 2019): 151-171
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