In:The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
Edited by David Prager Branner
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 271] 2006
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 24 January 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.271.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: What Are Rime Tables and What Do They Mean?
Part I: Rime-Tables in Chinese Reconstruction
On the Principle of the Four Grades
The Four Grades: An Interpretation from the perspective of Sino-altaic language contact
On Old Turkic Consonanticism and Vocalic Divisions of Acute Consonants in Medieval Hàn Phonology
The Qièyùn System ‘Divisions’ as the Result of Vowel Warping
Part II: The History of Rime Table Texts and Reconstruction
Reflections on the Shouwen Fragments
Zhāng Línzhī on the Yùnjìng
Simon Schaank and the Evolution of Western Beliefs About Traditional Chinese Phonology
Part III: Rime Tables as Descriptive Tools
How Rime-Book Based Analyses Can Lead Us Astray
Modern Chinese and the Rime Tables
Common Dialect Phonology in Practice.: Y.R. Chao’s Field Methodology
Some Composite Phonological Systems in Chinese
Common Dialectal Chinese
Appendix I: Pronunciation Guide to Boodberg's Alternative Grammatonomic Notation
Appendix II: Comparative Transcriptions of Rime Table Phonology
Bibliography
Index of Biographical Names
General Index
