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Schlagwörter:
network approaches; Historical Chinese Phonology; Chinese character formation; reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology; 網路方法; 音韻學; 造字法; 上古漢語音系的構擬
Zusammenfassung:
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.
