Comparative analysis for aspirated and unaspirated consonants' combination ability of commonly-used Chinese characters

Abstract

This paper uses the theories of phonemics, phonology and mathematical statistics to concrete compare and analysis the combination ability of 12 aspirated and unaspirated consonants in 2500 commonly-used standard Chinese characters' Initial system. Through the research some resulted have gained that: 1)the frequency distribution of aspirated and unaspirated consonants has correlation with the number of homophone in 2500 commonly-used standard Chinese characters; 2)aspirated and unaspirated consonants has consistent with the corresponding relation when they combine with different structure types finals; 3)the combination ability of the unaspirated sound is stronger than aspirated sound of The same method of articulation and pronunciation; 4) the combination of aspirated sound and nasal finals is common in commonly-used Chinese characters system. This paper provides data and certain reference value for the further study on phonological system of standard Chinese.