英文摘要 |
Many studies have investigated rhymes, Interchangeable Characters, and phonetic characters in the "archaic" Chu-dialect region. However, they have different conclusions of phonetic features. The study set out to systematically analyze the rhyme of "Qu Song" with mathematical statistics and probed into phonetic features of "archaic" Chu dialect such as "Hou Yu"(侯魚), "Dong Yang"(東陽), "Zhi Ge"(支歌), "Dong Dong"(冬東), "Zhen Wen"(真文). Moreover, the study indicated that poor credibility of phonetic features of "archaic" Chu dialect was due to lack of understanding of synchronic and diachronic phonetics, confusion of various materials, low authenticity of texts, and inappropriate application of statistic approaches. The findings show that differences of the rhyme of "Qu Song" from a branch of the traditional "archaic" rhyme are shown in the rhyme merger such as "Zhi Ge" (支歌), "Wuy Ue" (物月), and "Zhen Wen" (真文). This "archaic" sounds system is not "archaic Chu lauguage" of "non-Chinese languages", but "Yayan (Koine) "a transformed language generated from the interplay of "diachronic sound changes" and "non-Chinese languages" in the Chu-dialect region. |