The Interrelationships Between the Mergers of Nasal Codas in the Min Dialect of Eastern Guangdong and Their Geographical Distributions
Vol. 48 No.1 3/2018
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Title |
The Interrelationships Between the Mergers of Nasal Codas in the Min Dialect of Eastern Guangdong and Their Geographical Distributions |
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Author |
Li Jung-min |
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Genre |
Article |
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Pages |
143-164 |
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Language |
Chinese |
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Key words |
Chaoshan 潮汕 dialect, linguistic geography, glottogram, theory of concentricity |
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Abstract |
The merger of the nasal codas -m, -n, and -ng is a special phonological phenomenon of the Min dialect of Eastern Guangdong. Through the linguistic map, it is noted that we can find that Type 1 (only -ng coda) is found in the center, Type 3 (-m, -n, -ng codas) are distributed on the periphery, and Type 2 (-m and -ng codas) are in between, which fits perfectly with the theory of concentricity. By using glottograms, I show that Type 1 and Type 2 are expanding outward and that the merging of nasal codas forming Type 2 happened in the 16th century instead of in the 19th century, as previously indicated in the literature. |