2. Background and Methodology
2. 背景与方法
Chung-yu. Chen 陈重瑜

Abstract 摘要

2.1 The Evolution of Tones in Chinese Historical Phonology: the General Consensus versus the Proposed Points of Departure
2.2 Materials and Points of Clarification
2.2.1 Materials
2.2.2 Clarification on a pre-Middle Chinese period
2.2.3 A tradition of ‘prestige pronunciations’ – the basis for comparisons: Qieyun-Guangyun, Zhongyuan Yinyun, and Modern Peking
2.3 The Profiles of Tonal Changes
2.3.1 On the different readings corresponding to different meanings of the same graph
2.3.2 Parallel changes in the initial or final
2.3.3 Doublets and reversals
2.3.4 Internal discrepancies within a word and within a speech community
2.4 Notation and Interpretation: Numbers of Graphs
2.5 Points of Reference: Five-Point Tracing instead of Two-Point Mapping
2.6 Types and Orders of Tonal Changes