The present rising tone of MC words with semi-voiced initial in Jin dialect and surrounding Mandarin dialects
In Jin dialect and surrounding Mandarin dialects,a few MC words with semi-voiced initial in entering tone have changed into rising tone in present the pronunciation.Among these words,the colloquial ones mostly appear in Jin dialect and some northern clusters of Zhongyuan Mandarin;The literal ones are often found in the surrounding Zhongyuan Mandarin and Jilu Mandarin.Based on this,the paper proposes that some MC words with voiced initial in entering tone might have undergone a merge into rising tone in Jin dialect and Mandarin dialects.But the majority was not involved before the merging process was interrupted.Therefore,in present days,most MC words with voiced initial still have the original entering tone in Jin dialect.In modern Zhongyuan Mandarin,most MC words in entering tone with semi-voiced initial have changed into level tone with a voiceless consonant while those with voiced initial have changed into level tone with a voiced consonant.Since Mandarin dialects adjacent to the edge of Jin dialect are marginal to Zhongyuan Mandarin and literal pronunciation is supposed to be more stable than colloquial pronun-ciation,these surrounding dialects still present the early tone change from entering tone to rising tone.Besides,affected by the merge of entering tone into departing tone in MC words with semi-voiced initial in Beijing dialect,some MC words with semi-voiced initial can have two or even three pronunciations in these surrounding Mandarin dialects.
Jin dialectZhongyuan MandarinJilu MandarinMC words with semi-voiced initialrising toneentering tonedeparting tone
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