Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology

Main author: Hill, Nathan W.
Other authors: List, Johann-Mattis
Format: Journal Article           
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description This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals in Chinese historical phonology, and whether the distinctions suggested by these proposals can be said to be recoverable on the basis of phonophoric choice. The major finding is that the type A versus type B distinction is in some cases encoded in the choice of phonophoric determinative, while other distinctions are only spuriously if at all reflected in the phonophoric subseries.
format Journal Article
author Hill, Nathan W.
author_facet Hill, Nathan W.
List, Johann-Mattis
authorStr Hill, Nathan W.
author_letter Hill, Nathan W.
author2 List, Johann-Mattis
author2Str List, Johann-Mattis
title Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology
publisher Brill
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33017/