《Tai Lv Article》 Phonology Study

《Tai Lv Article》from late ming dynasty Ge Zhong Xuan (this article according to《Continuation Si ku quan shu·classic》) is an academic work intermixing temperament and phonics. Ge put together the five musical tones, temperament, yin yang from chinese philosophy, "air" even the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the universe, yin yang, the eight diagrams, the five internal organs, traditional twelve two-hour periods, four seasons, four-way, five elements, five flavors, five colors concepts for analyzing phonics; then applied the phonics analysis results to temperament.Ge was proficient in phonics analysis, but as the age limit and phonetic tools lack, his descriptive of voice category and phonology analysis is either involving temperament or yin yang &the eight diagrams, so it is either involving trick or ambiguity unclear, this requires we spend strength doing analysis and getting those irrelevant ingredients outside with phonics analysis removed, we can identify the actual phonics features of the book this way.Analyze the relevant historical facts of the book in the article, emphasizely analyze the phonics analytical categories and three different arranged forms of rhyme figure, affirm that the book is an important works of phonics analysis and also summarize out book's initials, vowels, tone systems and the phonology phonics natures.Analyze the relevant historical facts of《Tai Lv Article》in part one of the article. Emphasizely expound the author, writing circumstances, the phonics analytical categories and structure of three rhyme diagrams, phonics nature and value of the《Tai Lv Article》The main framework of《Tai Lv Article》is three different arranged forms of rhyme figure, namely "tai lv yin zhuan qi yin", "tai lv sheng zhuan qi sheng" "tai lv zhi qi wei" The three rhyme figures are only differently arranged, the phonics system is consistent.Analyze three rhyme figure reflected phonological tune system and produced syllable mosaic table in the second part of the article.Initials characteristics:voiced initials devoiced, zhi zhuang and zhang groups of initials completely merged, f is still confronting with v, ying yu and yi three initials united, tsim regiment discrete, totally 20 initials.Vowels characteristics:vowels classification is very clear in《Tai Lv Article》, three rhyme figures are all divided into twelve categories. According to comprehensive analysis, the vowels of the book characterized:four vowels complete, closed rhyme disappears and apical vowel forms, y vowel stereotypes and sakusuke tone, laryngeal teeth second word there medials, a withεantagonism disappears, there entering finals but entering endings mixed for-?, totally 43 finals (entering tone vowels not mind to tones distinguish).Tone characteristics:five tone categories in the book, namely yin ping, yang ping, shang sheng, falling tone and entering tone, characterized equally yin yang, voiced variable goes, entering tone independs.According to the phonological characteristics of the book, we can find that this phonology mainly reflects late ming mandarin common phonology characteristics.Produce the syllable table of the book phonology in the third part, there are 1741 all belt tune syllables.