The Study of Chen Jin's "Shih Yun Shih Yin" Phonological Phenomena in Qing Dynasty

Abstract

SUMMARY Shih Yun Shih Yin(詩韻釋音) is written by Chen Jin(陳錦) in Guang Syu(光緒) thirteenth year(1887 A D ) in Qing Dynasty This book follows earlier rhyme books not only writing rules and layout but also Fanchieh(反切) because its writing time is later than other rhyme books For example rhyme systematization and word inclusion follow Pei Wun Yun Fu(佩文韻府) and Fanchie follows Guang Yun(廣韻) Because of its Shih Yun Shih Yin’s phonological system is similar to Guang Yun Chen Jin uses some rules like Leige (類隔) and Dangtsong(當?) to modify Guang Yun’s Fanchieh so it’s easier to spelling and in keeping with speech record surroundings at that time In addition to this Jinduruo(今讀若) is the most important rule in Shih Yun Shih Yin This rule is used to correct the speech sound n different from Guang Yun’s Fanchieh Although Jinduruo’s purpose is to make speech sound spell correct it can also be regarded as the speech record at the time By analysising Shih Yun Shih Yin’s corrected Fanchieh and Jinduruo Fanchieh’s speech sound record you can see the changes in Middle Chinese to Modern Chinese and also North-South differences in dialects So this study focus on initials change in the third chapter and finals change in the forth chapter Although Jinduruo Fanchieh can summarize some speech sound change rules there are still a lot of Jinduruo Fanchieh unable to include in speech sound change rules Bacause there are a lot of Phono-semantic compound characters in Chinese character and Chen Jin’s personal life experience cause Jinduruo Fanchieh can’t summarize So this study focus on this Jinduruo Fanchieh in the fifth chapter

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Mei-Hsiang Chen (Supervisor)