Journal article
Palatalization of Velars in the Nanking Dialect
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.60(3), pp.533-537
10/1997
DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X00032535
Abstract
Nankingese is today classed as a Jiānghuái Mandarin dialect. As recently reported (Liú, 1994), velar initials do not occur before high front vowels in this language except in the two vernacular words ki11 ‘give’ and k ′ i ‘go’. There is, however, a series of palatal initials, , which appear exclusively before high front vowels; and in certain instances these consonants correspond to the gutturals k-, k′-, and h- in more conservative dialect groups such as Cantonese, Hakka, and Min. This suggests that the Nanking palatals in these instances have developed from earlier velars through a process of palatalization. The present paper will attempt to trace and date this process.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Palatalization of Velars in the Nanking Dialect
- Creators
- W. South Coblin - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.60(3), pp.533-537
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0041977X00032535
- ISSN
- 0041-977X
- eISSN
- 1474-0699
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1997
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Record Identifier
- 9984095004702771
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