The Preliminary Investigating Into The Types Of Yangsheng Finals From Middle Chinese To Part Of Today's Dialects

This article tries to learn the facts about the changing of Yangsheng finals of Middle Chinese.The inquisitional scope is 42 dialects in the whole country and Peking.The data use is Modern Chinese Dialect Lexicon,which was issued under Li Rong's general editorship.The queuing discipline of the text is She(æ‘„).The order is that:Tongshe meter,Jiangshe meter,Dangshe meter,Gengshe meter, Zengshe meter,Zhenshe meter,Shanshe meter,Shenshe meter,Xianshe meter.In the first place,find out of the values.And then tabulate data in tables.Following each of the table,give an example to analyze.Through a comparison,the changing of Yangsheng finals can be discovered.The variety circumstance in the dialect was divided into three.The first one is nasals stayed.The second is nasals transformed.The third is nasals shed off.In the fast and the second part,the article not only carried on a comparison to the rhyme's variety category,but also carried on comparison to the variety of rhyme category of the dialect amount.The textual conclusion mainly is:The nasals continue to have.This means that the back nasals still retain,the front nasals retain and the bilabial nasals retain.Comparing with each other in proportion,the back nasals take the first place, the front nasals take the second place and the bilabial nasals is the lowest.The development direction of nasals:back nasals turn to front nasals,and also the front nasals turn to back nasals.But they almost can't turn to the bilabial nasals.The bilabial nasals then in the meantime can be the front nasals and the back nasals.During the changes,the key vowel plays a big role.The middle vowel and the front vowel make the back nasal tail turns to the front nasals much easier.The back vowel and the low vowel make the back nasals retain more easily.The tongue position of the key vowel produces an effect on the conversion from front nasals to back nasals.By and large,if the tongue position is approximately behind or lower,the front nasals will turn to back nasals easier.The nasal tall is the most stable one in the three types.It is harder to change or lose than the front nasal tail and the bilabial nasals.In the process of the losing,lower the vowel tongue is,then the nasals are easier to lose;higher the tongue is easier the nasals to keep.Almost all types of Yangsheng final turn to Yinsheng finals and nasalized rhyme.