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Research Methods of Sound Change: Current Situation and Future Development
QIU Chun’an
2015, 15 (02):
13-17.
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.02.004
The paper deals with the research approaches of sound change in Chinese dialects. The traditional methods are as follows, i.e., descriptive and comparative method, the integration of text-research method and historical-comparative method, lexical diffusion theory, overlapped theory, and historical strata analysis. The article also discusses the future developments of sound change, i.e., equilibrium-punctuation, phonetic typology, geographical linguistics, experimental phonetics, and variation sociolinguistics. The author holds that these methods are complementary to each other.
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