学術雑誌論文

学術雑誌論文

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Historiographia Linguistica. 2021, 48(1), p. 1-24

On the four grades / four calls of Chinese rime tables

Orlandi, Georg

John Benjamins Publishing Company

英語

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2021-08-24

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00085.orl

Orlandi G.. On the four grades / four calls of Chinese rime tables. Historiographia Linguistica, 48, 1, 1 - 24. https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00085.orl.

The present paper seeks to discuss and clarify the notions of 'Grades' and 'Calls' of traditional Chinese rime tables, which are commonly related to the presence or absence of glides, and continue to be taken as a basis for reconstructing vocalic and semi-vocalic portions of the post-initial elements in medieval and pre-medieval Chinese syllables. It is argued that, based on the discussions of Grades/Calls by Chinese scholars of the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, they were probably conceived as degrees of stricture of the phonatory apparatus, with progressive narrowing of the articulatory aperture, from wide and open to narrow and close. It is concluded that the linguistic perspective underpinning the classification of "sounds" in the linguistic tradition of China appears to be remarkably close to concepts long held in other linguistic traditions.

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On the four grades / four calls of Chinese rime tables

Orlandi, Georg

John Benjamins Publishing Company

英語

2021-08-24

Historiographia Linguistica

48

1

1

24

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00085.orl

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/88648