Reconstruction of Old Chinese Back Vowels
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چکیده
This paper proposes a revised system of Old Chinese back vowels: *ɤ (之), *u (宵), *o (幽), *ɔ (侯) and *a (魚), which is purely monophthongal and may account for more related phenomena. There are such kinds of mixed rhymes in the Shijing: 之 and 幽, 宵 and 幽, 幽 and 侯. It is due to the sound similarity between the rhyme groups of each pair. The back vowels of Old Chinese widely experienced a raising-diphthongizing process, and this evolution was delayed by a preceding *-j-. This revised system may explain this series of evolution more simply and effectively.
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