The Deaff rication of Labiodental Aff ricate Initials of Southern Min Dialect in Eastern Guangdong
Author(s)：
ZHANG Jingfen
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Affiliation(s)：
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北京大学中国语言学研究中心/北京大学中国语言文学系 北京 100871
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ZHANG Jingfen,etc.The Deaff rication of Labiodental Aff ricate Initials of Southern Min Dialect in Eastern Guangdong[J].,2024(03):14-23.
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ZHANG Jingfen. (2024)The Deaff rication of Labiodental Aff ricate Initials of Southern Min Dialect in Eastern Guangdong[J].,(03),14-23.
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Abstract
The colloqui al pronunciation of Middle Chinese initials “帮滂并明(非敷奉微)” is p, p
h, b, m
in Southern Min dialect; however, in the Chaopu group of Southern Min in Eastern Guangdong, there exist other
pronunciations, namely labiodental aff ricates pf, pf
h, bv and labiodental nasal ɱ. Not only did bilabial stops switch
to labiodental affricates, some of them even further developed to become fricatives. Based on the survey of 15
speakers in the dialects of the Chaopu group, this paper fi nds that the development of aff ricates to fricatives varies
across dialects and among speakers within the same dialect, and that the change only involves “pf→f” and
“bv→v”. The aspirated labiodental aff ricate pf
h and the labiodental nasal ɱ do not have fricative counterparts.
Three consultants were closely examined for the change from labiodental affricates to fricatives based on the
consultants’ perceptual judgement, production (as shown in spectrograms), and the diff erences between words read
in isolation and in speech fl ow. The data of consultant ZXJ, shows that there is no signifi cant diff erence between
the VOTs of pf and f, while the VOT of pf
h is signifi cantly larger than that of f. We propose that the similarity in the
auditory perception of pf and f (which show no diff erence in VOT) is the motivation for the change of labiodental
aff ricates to fricatives. The change of labiodental aff ricates to fricatives is a typical lenition. Therefore, we can fi nd
more fricatives occurring in the speech fl ow. This deaff rication of labiodental aff ricate is a recent phonetic change
of Chaopu Min dialect, which is diff erent from the well-known heavy-to-light-lip shift with respect to phonological
categories and conditions, but it provides credible evidence for an intermediate evolutionary stage of this sound
change.
Keywords
Southern Min Dialect in Eastern Guangdong; Chaopu Min dialect; labiodental aff ricates; labiodental
fricatives; deaff rication
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教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目“广东粤方言声调类型及演化模式研究”（编号：23YJC740089）;广东省哲学社会科学 规划项目青年项目“基于语音实验分析的广东闽语声调地理语言学研究”（编号：GD23YZY01）
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