A) Chao Yuen Ren B) Karl Karlgren C) William Baxter and Li Fang-Kuei D) Karlgren and Bernhard
A) /j/ B) /r/ C) /l/ D) /w/
A) /r/ or /l/ B) /j/ or /w/ C) /w/ or /r/ D) /r/ or /j/
A) /p/ or /t/ B) /m/ or /n/ C) /r/ or /l/ D) /s/ or /ʔ/
A) "Major" and "minor" pre-initials B) "Primary" and "secondary" pre-initials C) "Heavy" and "light" pre-initials D) "Tightly bound" and "loosely bound" pre-initials
A) /C-/ B) /Cə/ C) /Cʔ/ D) /Cs/
A) /Cs/ B) /C-/ C) /Cə/ D) /Cʔ/
A) They turn into post-finals B) They mostly just disappear C) They become main vowels D) They become palatal consonants
A) The Middle Chinese tone system B) The loss of final consonants C) The presence of retroflex initials D) The use of a phonetic complement and early borrowings
A) Indo-European and Dravidian languages B) Austronesian and Japonic languages C) Sino-Tibetan and Turkic languages D) Hmong-Mien and Tai languages
A) Syllable stress B) Morphological derivation C) Vowel harmony D) Tone generation
A) Yes B) Only in type-B syllables C) Only in type-A syllables D) No
A) Checked and unchecked B) Voiced and voiceless C) Type-1 and type-2 D) Type-A and type-B
A) Only the presence of final consonants B) The presence of /j/ and /w/ glides C) Only retroflexion of vowels D) Presence or absence of prefixes, accent, length, or register
A) Palatalization of the final consonant B) Nasalization of the main vowel C) Addition of a medial /w/ D) Pharyngealization of the initial consonant
A) Labiovelar consonants B) Velar stops C) Palatal or retroflex consonants D) Voiceless resonants
A) Voiceless resonants like /m̥/ and /n̥/ B) Voiced glottal stops C) Palatal fricatives D) Retroflex affricates
A) Ten B) Four C) Eight D) Six
A) Coda consonants similar to EMC B) /wŋ/ C) /r/ D) Final /n/ (derived from /r/)
A) /m/ B) /ŋ/ C) /n/ D) /l/
A) Zhou Deqing B) W. A. C. H. Dobson C) Weldon South Coblin D) Axel Schuessler
A) 10th to 9th century BC B) 12th to 11th century BC C) 14th to 13th century BC D) 4th to 3rd century BC
A) 10th to 9th century BC B) 4th to 3rd century BC C) c. 200 AD D) c. 1250 to 771 BC
A) Zhou dynasty B) Ming dynasty C) Yuan dynasty D) Han dynasty
A) Wu Chinese varieties B) Mandarin varieties C) Min Chinese varieties D) Yue Chinese varieties
A) Original Northwest Chinese B) Old National Western Chinese C) Old Northwest Chinese D) Old Northern Written Chinese
A) Axel Schuessler B) W. A. C. H. Dobson C) Zhou Deqing D) Weldon South Coblin
A) Yunjing B) Yunlüe Huitong C) Qieyun D) Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn
A) Lower Middle Chinese B) Late Mandarin Chinese C) Late Middle Chinese D) Last Middle Chinese
A) Yunjing B) Qieyun C) Hongmu Chôngyun Yôkhun D) Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn
A) The comparative method B) The epigraphic method C) The historical-documentary method D) The phonetic translation method
A) 1583–1588 B) 1692–1694 C) 1455–1795 D) 1269–1455
A) 1269 B) 1279 C) 1324 D) 1368
A) 1455 B) 1279 C) 1795 D) 1368
A) Chinese characters B) 'Phags-pa script C) Oracle bone script D) Latin alphabet
A) It was the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese. B) It was the first rime dictionary ever published. C) It was used exclusively for Old Chinese oracle bones. D) It was created by Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri.
A) A pedagogical dictionary B) A bilingual grammar C) An opera manual D) A rime table
A) Francisco Varo B) Zhou Deqing C) Basilio Brollo D) Matteo Ricci
A) 1455–1795 B) 1583–1588 C) 1692–1694 D) 1269–1455
A) Qieyun B) Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn C) Hongmu Chôngyun Yôkhun D) Yunjing
A) 1517 B) 1455 C) 1583 D) 1642
A) 1692–1694 B) 1791–1795 C) 1583–1588 D) 1455–1458
A) A missionary who wrote a grammar of Mandarin B) A friar who wrote a dictionary C) A rime table compiler from the Tang dynasty D) An opera author from the Yuan dynasty
A) 1742–1745 B) 1583–1588 C) 1455–1458 D) 1692–1694
A) Michele Ruggieri B) Matteo Ricci C) Basilio Brollo D) Francisco Varo
A) Hongmu Chôngyun Yôkhun B) Sasông T’onghae C) Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn D) Yunlüe Huitong
A) Beijing B) Central Plains C) Shaanxi D) Gansu
A) Little changed B) It merged entirely with Min Chinese C) It reverted to Late Middle Chinese D) Completely transformed into a new language family
A) 1932 B) 1368 C) 1800 D) 1949
A) Zhou Deqing B) Basilio Brollo C) Mao Zedong D) Francisco Varo
A) Latin script B) 'Phags-pa script C) Tangut script D) Oracle bone script
A) Five tone-classes B) Four tone-classes C) Two tone-classes D) Three tone-classes
A) Three phonemic tones B) Two phonemic tones C) No phonemic tones D) Four phonemic tones
A) Exclusively three-syllable words B) Largely monosyllabic words C) Mostly four-syllable words D) Largely polysyllabic words
A) No initial consonants B) Only one initial consonant C) A large number D) A very small number
A) A fairly small number B) More final consonants than initials C) A very large number D) An unlimited number
A) A greater imbalance B) Only final consonants C) A lesser imbalance D) No consonants at all
A) Proto-Indo-European B) Proto-Sino-Tibetan C) Proto-Germanic D) Proto-Austronesian
A) Modern Japanese B) Modern Cantonese C) Written Tibetan D) Standard Mandarin
A) Korean B) Modern Khmer C) Modern Vietnamese D) Thai
A) A monosyllabic reduction B) A Tibetan consonant merger C) A pan-East-Asiatic tone split D) A European vowel shift
A) Fluctuation with no net change B) A rapid increase C) No change D) A gradual decrease
A) Standard Mandarin B) Old Chinese C) Modern Khmer D) Written Tibetan
A) About 1,200 possible syllables B) About 10,000 possible syllables C) About 5,000 possible syllables D) About 400 possible syllables
A) Voiced initial consonants B) Polysyllabic Tibetan words C) Proto-Sino-Tibetan prefixes D) Former monosyllabic words
A) Alphabetically B) Using a syllabary C) Using hieroglyphs D) Logographically
A) Modern Mandarin pronunciation guides B) Audio recordings from the Han dynasty C) Indo-European comparative linguistics D) Auxiliary sources that more directly document phonology
A) The Guangyun B) The Shiming C) The Shuowen Jiezi D) The Shijing
A) 1250 BC to 25 AD B) 13th century AD to the present C) 5th century AD to 12th century AD D) 25–220 AD
A) Wu B) Proto-Min C) Indo-European D) Early Mandarin
A) The Guangyun B) The Shijing C) The Shiming D) The Qieyun
A) The Guangyun B) The Shijing C) The Shuowen Jiezi D) The Qieyun
A) 800 AD B) 220 AD C) 1250 BC D) 601 AD
A) The Guangyun B) The Shiming C) The Shuowen Jiezi D) The Shijing
A) Around 601 AD B) Around 500 AD C) Around 800 AD D) Around 100 AD
A) Around 500 AD B) Around 601 AD C) Around 800 AD D) Around 100 AD
A) Sanskrit grammar parsing B) Rime table analysis C) Homophone listing D) Fanqie
A) Tibetan calligraphy B) Korean script development C) Sanskrit grammar D) Mongolian alphabet systems
A) Homophone lists B) Rime tables C) Sanskrit dictionaries D) Alphabet charts
A) Qieyun B) Pāṇini C) Yunjing D) Duan Yucai
A) A phoneme B) A homophone C) A fanqie character D) A rime table
A) Pāṇini B) Yunjing C) Qieyun D) Duan Yucai
A) Strict adherence to the fanqie method B) The belief that phonemes already existed in Chinese characters C) Treating foreigners as 'barbarians' D) Viewing Sanskrit grammar as superior to Chinese poetry
A) Henri Maspero B) Matteo Ricci C) Walter Simon D) Bernhard Karlgren
A) 25 B) 9 C) 31 D) 19
A) Ningbo B) Suzhou C) Wenzhou D) Shanghai
A) Chaozhou B) Quanzhou C) Fuzhou D) Xiamen
A) Taishanese B) Teochew C) Cantonese D) Hakka
A) 1940 B) 1915 C) 1957 D) 1901
A) Shanghai Library B) Dunhuang Caves C) Guangdong University D) Palace Museum
A) British Museum B) Dunhuang Caves C) National Library of Beijing D) Palace Museum
A) Qieyun B) Grammata Serica C) Grammata Serica Recensa D) Guangyun
A) 1960 B) 1915 C) 1940 D) 1957
A) Sino-Xenic data B) 'Phags-pa script C) Fanqie analysis D) Shijing poetry
A) Henri Maspero B) Matteo Ricci C) Sin Sukchu D) Bernhard Karlgren
A) Matteo Ricci B) Sin Sukchu C) Bernhard Karlgren D) Walter Simon
A) Qing dynasty B) Sui-Tang period C) Ming dynasty D) Qin dynasty
A) A literate reading adopted by the literate class throughout the country B) The spoken language of the common people in 601 AD C) A single live spoken dialect of the Sui capital D) An artificial code created by foreign invaders
A) Altaic languages B) Sino-Tibetan dialects C) Austroasiatic languages D) Indo-European languages
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