| 英文摘要 |
Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 70% of them are not attested in the empirical data, implying that substantial constraints have been governing the segmental sequencing and segmental-suprasegmental alignment. This study explores phonotactic constraints on syllable onsets. It addresses two important issues as to in what way syllable onsets are constrained, and what mechanisms have governed the alignment of Zhangzhou onsets with other syllables components and tones to generate syllables that are attestable. The exploration substantially stretches and advances our knowledge of phonological constraints in this Sinitic dialect, while contributing important linguistic data to the typology of phonotactics as an important language phenomenon in world’s natural languages. |
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