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