| 英文摘要 |
The basic elements of Chinese phonological history are a reconstructed common source, Proto-Chinese, and the changes which transform this reconstructed language into the historically attested dialects of Chinese. These changes originate in different places, are in effect for different durations of time, and influence different groups of words. Sets of such changes, defined in terms of time and space, characterize different dialects. The existence of dialect variations, it must be emphasized, is not a phenomenon of recent origin. In using Chinese written records, we must pay attention to both the time and the region they represent. Although we have abundant written records of the Chinese language, we do not have complete records for all the regions of any particular period or for all the periods in any particular region. |
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