{"id":5855,"date":"2013-04-15T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5855"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:40:00","slug":"erhua","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5855","title":{"rendered":":Erhua:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8\u025c\u02d0rhw\u0251\u02d0<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A phonological process found in some, mainly northern, varieties of Chinese and especially noticeable in the speech of Beijing. The process involves the addition of a suffix, written \u513f and pronounced <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u027b<\/strong><\/span>, to the end of a morpheme.  The addition of the suffix triggers various consonant deletions and vowel quality changes in the morpheme to which it is added.  A brief account of these is given below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Final <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>n<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>i<\/strong><\/span> are deleted<\/li>\n<li>final <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u014b<\/strong><\/span> is deleted and the preceding vowel is nasalised <\/li>\n<li>Vowel changes: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>a<\/strong><\/span> \u2192 <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0251<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>e<\/strong><\/span> \u2192 <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0259<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0268<\/strong><\/span> \u2192 <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0259<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>In syllables ending <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>j\u025bn<\/strong><\/span> or <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0265\u025bn<\/strong><\/span> the vowel is changed to <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0251<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The original use of erhua seems to have been to form the diminutive of a noun.  However, in Beijing especially it is so common that it now appears often to be just a marker that a word <em>is<\/em> a noun and can be used to distinguish a noun from a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3164\">homophonous<\/a> non-noun.  An example: <strong>w\u01cen<\/strong> can be the adjective meaning &#8220;late&#8221; or the noun meaning &#8220;bowl&#8221;.  Only the latter can undergo the erhua process turning up as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>w\u0251\u030c\u027b<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation \u02c8\u025c\u02d0rhw\u0251\u02d0 A phonological process found in some, mainly northern, varieties of Chinese and especially noticeable in the speech of Beijing. The process involves the addition of a suffix, written \u513f and pronounced \u027b, to the end of a morpheme. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5855\/revisions\/5878"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}