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Phonetic Reconstruction of the Consonant System of Middle Chinese via Mixed Integer Optimization
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This paper is concerned with phonetic reconstruction of the consonant system of Middle Chinese. We propose to cast the problem as a Mixed Integer Programming problem, which is able to automatically explore homophonic information from ancient rhyme dictionaries and phonetic information from modern Chinese dialects, the descendants of Middle Chinese. Numerical evaluation on a wide range of synthetic and real data demonstrates the effectiveness and robustness of the new method. We apply the method to information from Guǎngyùn and 20 modern Chinese dialects to obtain a new phonetic reconstruction result. A linguistically motivated discussion of this result is also provided.1
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- Authors
- Luo, X., & Sun, W.
- Affiliations
- Peking University (CN)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2025
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 424-441
- ISSN
- 2307-387X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4409881878
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 3.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- Middle Chinese, phonetic reconstruction, consonant system, mixed integer programming, homophones, modern Chinese dialects, Guangyun, historical phonology
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