Some Departures from Strict Phonemic Representations1
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The learning of Chinese has, for years, been regarded a s a matter that requires some special skill. At present there are still many people who have notbeen reached by the results of modern linguistic research and therefore they still look upon the learning of Chinese with the same attitude that Confucius had for the supernatural. When he was asked to give his opinion concerning it, Confucius said, "Respect it; stay away from it." Surprisingly enough, one can even find unintelligible statements made by a linguist concerning Chinese. In 1947 i n his A Message to the Linguist's Congress, Felice Rovai said,
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