东汉时期汉语音系特征考释

Textual Research on Old Chinese Phonological Characteristics in the Eastern Han Dynasty

本文利用古文献材料和亲属语言材料去考证东汉汉语声母、韵母以及音节的特点,并拿它与亲属语言作类型比较,推测当时的声调。东汉时期的汉语语音系统还保留着上古汉语的许多特点,可能还有复声母存在。韵母方面,入声韵与阴声韵的关系还十分密切,阴声韵可能还有辅音韵尾,但已有简化的趋势,整体音节结构已开始简化。当时的汉语已经有了声调,但声调的别义功能可能还不十分强,还是一种不完全成熟的声调。

The paper employs documents and family language materials to exam the phonologicalcharacteristics of old Chinese in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Chinese in the Eastern Han Dynastypreserved many characteristics of the Archaic Chinese phonetic system. Because of some consonantclusters in its ininial consonant system and consonantal coda in its yinsheng rhyme system, itssyllabic structure was rather complicated. The Old Chinese in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a tonelanguage, while its tone system was an imperfect one that was not so powerful to distinguishmeacungs.