英文摘要 |
This thesis examines the Tong 通 and Jiang 江 rhyme groups using the fanqie反切 annotations made during the Western Jin, Eastern Jin, and Southern Dynasties, and collected in the Annotations of the Chinese Classics 經典釋文, together with language materials from before and after this period. Contact with local dialects from remote antiquity to the Southern Dynasties period resulted in an historical process of vowel redistribution.In the early Eastern Jin, the Tong and Jiang rhyme groups experienced a period when northern and southern pronunciations came into contact, resulting in a chaotic redistribution of vowels. Examining the phonetic annotations from different periods and regions and comparing related materials, a new stratum of vowels can be observed in the rhymes at that time resulting from the contact of the two groups. However there still existed a core of stable literary pronunciations such as [uŋ] or [oŋ], which after this chaotic period gradually enabled rhymes to be categorized, and, by the late Southern Dynasties, a stable four-rhyme and three-category system of literary readings to be developed. |