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Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese

With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese

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This paper argues that the Chinese language has undergone a foot-shift from the Old Chinese monosyllabic foot to a Modern Chinese disyllabic foot. It will be shown that the natural simplification of Old Chinese syllables has caused the foot-shift, resulting in disyllabification. The disappearance of bimoraic feet in Old Chinese has resulted from the loss of consonantal codas, including codas of consonant clusters, which has led to the disappearance of heavy syllables, as well as super-heavy syllables. In other words, this foot-shift can be explained as a compensatory transformation of a heavy Old Chinese dimoraic monosyllable to a pair of light monomoraic disyllables. One way of understanding this evolution is that disyllabification of feet in Modern Chinese is a compensatory mechanism to maintain foot complexity.
Keywords: foot-shift, disyllabification, syllabic structure of Old Chinese, prosody
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Prosodic properties of Old Chinese
    • 2.1Syllabic structure of Old Chinese
      • 2.1.1The Li Fang-kuei system
      • 2.1.2Wang Li’s system
      • 2.1.3The Zhengzhang-Pan system
    • 2.2A prosodic view of Old Chinese syllable
  • 3.Simplification of syllabic structures in the transition from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese, with foot-shift thus triggered
    • 3.1Simplification of syllabic structures
      • 3.1.1Coda reduction and loss
      • 3.1.2Simplification of consonant clusters
      • 3.1.3Simplification of Old Chinese syllabic structures
    • 3.2Foot shift of Chinese
  • 4.Disyllabification: Consequence of foot-shift in the history of Chinese
    • 4.1Vocabulary consequence of foot-shift
    • 4.2Syntactic consequence of foot-shift
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • List of abbreviations
  • References
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