The Prosodic Influence on the Old Chinese Tonogenesis

[ICSTLL 51] 26th-28th September 2018 ; Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN主催 : 第51回国際漢蔵語学会実行委員会 ; 共催 : 京都大学白眉センターThis paper examines the mainstream explanation of the origin of Old Chinese tone system. There has been solid evidence showing the correspondence between certain codas assumed occurring in Old Chinese and tones in Middle Chinese. However, there is also inconsistency in evidence from loanwords, cognates and traditional rhyming practice in Odes. To solve the problem, we are proposing in this paper that prosodic factors also play important roles in Old Chinese tonogenesis