Re: Revising my consonant inventory

--- John Vertical <johnvertical@...> schrieb:

> AFMCL, I've started to dout if I need to attest
> separate aspirate stops for proto-uwjge at all; they
> might be explainable as the development of stop + w,
> with /pw/ going > /pP/ > /P/ > /f/ without needing
> the aspirated intermediate at all.
I think this happened in the time between Early and
Late Middle Chinese, at least according to
Pulleyblank.

EMC /puaN/ --> LMC /faN, fHaN/ --> Man. /faN/ 'square;
direction'

EMC /p_huaN/ --> LMC /faN, fHaN/ --> Man. /faN/ 'harm,
injure (high level tone), hinder (rising tone)'

EMC /buaN/ --> LMC /f_taN, f_tHaN/ --> Man. /faN/
'room' (/_t/ indicates breathy voice)

It could have happened something like this:

[puaN] --> [pPaN] --> [PaN] --> [faN]

[p_huaN] --> [pPaN] --> [PaN] --> [faN]

[buaN] --> [p_tuaN] --> [pP_taN] --> [P_taN] -->
[f_taN] --> [faN]


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