%0 Journal Article
%A List, Johann-Mattis
%A Hill, Nathan W.
%A Foster, Christopher J.
%+ CALC, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Towards a standardized annotation of rhyme judgments in
Chinese historical phonology (and beyond) : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-EBA4-6
%R 10.31826/jlr-2019-171-207
%7 2019
%D 2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Although rhyme analysis plays a crucial role in the reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology,<br>the field has not yet developed a standardized annotation framework for rhyme judgments<br>applied to Ancient Chinese texts. Building on initial attempts to standardize crosslinguistic<br>data for the purpose of historical and typological language comparison (as part of<br>the Cross-Linguistic Data Formats initiative), we present a proposal for consistent and transparent<br>rhyme annotation. This proposal allows scholars to annotate the rhymes they identify<br>in historical texts in such a way that the judgments can be analyzed with computational tools<br>as well as conveniently inspected by scholars. Our framework is accompanied by software<br>tools and exemplary datasets, which were annotated by various scholars, and reflect not only<br>Chinese, but also contemporary poetry in different languages. In the paper, we present the<br>framework and also point to caveats and current insufficiencies in annotation. In doing so,<br>we hope to inspire more scholars working on Old Chinese reconstruction to share their<br>judgments, allowing others working in the field to improve, revise, and analyze them.
%K Old Chinese language, Chinese rhymes, data annotation, cross-linguistic data formats.
%J Journal of Language Relationship
%V 17
%N 1
%& 26
%P 26 - 43
%I RGGU
%@ 1998-6769