The phonotactics and graphic construction of "biang"
Language Log 2025-01-10
Summary:
In my latest (of many) posts on that redoubtable sinograph, biáng ("Annals of Biang, Vienna edition" [1/3/25]), I posed this question: "How do we know that this character is to be pronounced in the second tone?" Chris Button sensibly queried in reply: "So, something aside from the syllable being a phonotactic violation?" Later, he elaborated, "Even […]