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NOTES ON THE INITIALS YING AND YÜ IN ANCIENT CHINESE WAS THERE A CONTRAST, THE GLOTTAL STOP VERSUS THE ZERO-CONSONANT IN ANCIENT CHINESE INITIALS ? BY SIAN LIN YEN Karlgren interpreted the initial, labeled ying #j in the Sound- tables, as the glottal stop and marked it with a raised dot 1). In contrast to this glottal stop, he also reconstructed what he called 'smooth vocalic ingress', which occurred only before his medial i. If we accept Karlgren's reconstruction of these initials as they are, it is clear that we would be forced to the conclusion that there was a contrast of the glottal stop versus the zero-consonant-i.e. the glottal stop was distinctive-in Ancient Chinese 2). There are, 255 however, several good reasons for doubting that the glottal stop was distinctive in Ancient Chinese; so, let us first examine how Karlgren came to reconstruct the glottal stop and the smooth vocalic ingress for this language. Among the thirty-six initials of the Ch'ieh-yün chih-chang-t'u, there are two that do not appear, if we judge from modern dialects and foreign loans, to have been oral consonants. The two initials were labeled and yu respectively. Karlgren thought that these must have
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1966
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