Ah, good point. I’m rather fond of the two-vowel analysis myself, but I’ll check out Norman’s too.
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Luckily I understood that anyway!
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Well, I just realised that the code I’m working from uses rhymes which aren’t in Pinyin at all (e.g. -ueng). They all get simplified down to valid Pinyin in the end, but it seems a pointlessly complicated way of going about things (though that’s quite in keeping with the rest of the code, mind you). I’m not convinced it’s a good use of my time trying to decode all this.
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I agree, to import just about any Chinese historical linguistics material into your model would require taking the time to understand its own models first, which is legitimately a huge investment of time and effort. Inasmuch as it sounds like other kinds of historical linguistics, but is kind of a weird inbred cousin who acts normal around decent people most of the time but is ancient and crazy.