英文摘要 |
The Miao-Yao reflexes of prenasalized stops include prenasalized stops, both voiceless and voiced, simple nasals, in which nasal and stop have merged, voiced stops corresponding to prenasalized voiceless stops, and, in some dialects, simple stops with no indication of a prenasalized origin. Chart 1 surveys the reflexes of Proto-Miao prenasalized dental stops in some modern Miao dialects. In the Miao dialect of Yang-hao, nasals have merged with voiced stops but have been lost before voiceless stops. In the Shui-wei reflexes of prenasalized voiceless stops, glottalization is a transitional phenomenon on the way to the loss of the nasal: cessation of nasalization first precedes onset of the dental stop-n?t-; ?t- is a later stage in the loss of the nasal. |