A Study of the Chinese Phonology during the Yuan Dynasty

在本研究中，我重新考查了元代的各种音韵学资料。首先，将元代音韵学研究的基础资料《中原音韵》、《中州乐府音韵》等国内文献通过Unicord转换为数字数据库，并对其编撰过程进行了研究。结果发现：《中原音韵》是在《中州乐府音韵类编》的基础上进行扩充的，而《中州乐府音韵类编》则是在《广韵》的基础上依次摘取的基本文字编撰而成的，澄清了《中原音韵》的扩充过程中也使用了《广元音韵》。在研究过程中，我考查了各种版本的《中原音韵》，其中元代的《葛绍库》是现存的最古老的版本，此外，我还成功地收集了一本新发现的明代版本。在这个新发现的版本中，有对每个韵母的语音描述，这在其他版本中是看不到的，它们特别有趣。此外，我还试图将以往对蒙古紫云等hPhags-pa材料的系统研究融入我们的项目中。另一方面，对《致远易语》这一珍贵的汉蒙资料进行了研究。波斯文献和日本文献的数据库暂时还没有完成。此外，还对《全园曲》中韵字的融入进行了基础性研究。通过这些研究，对元代各种音韵学文献进行了详细的梳理，为吸收前人的研究资料和成果做了基础性的工作。

In this study, I reexamined various phonological materials of the Yuan dynasty. First, the domestic documents such as the Zhongyuan yinyun, the Zhongzhou yuefu yinyun leibian phonology and so on, which are the fundamental materials for the research of the Yuan dynasty phonology, were converted as digital database by unicord, and then I researched their compiling processes. As a result, new findings that advance the former discussions are obtained: It was known that the Zhongyuan yinyun was enlarged on the basis of the Zhongzhou yuefu yinyun leibian, and the later was compiled by picking up basic characters in the Guangyun sequently; it has been clarified that the Guangyun was also used in the enlarging process of the Zhongyuan yinyun. In the research process, I examined the various versions of the Zhongyuan yinyun, including the Kyou Shooku version of the Yuan dynasty the is the oldest version among the existent copies, moreover, I succeded to collect a newly found Ming dynasty version. In this newly discovered version, there are phonetical descriptions to the each final which are not seen in the other versions, they are expecially interisting. Moreover, I tried to incoporate the previous systematical studies on hPhags-pa materials such as the Menggu ziyun into our project. On the other hand, I researched the Zhiyuan Yiyu, which is a valuable Sino-Mongolian material. For the time being, the database of the Persian documents and the Japanese documents is not completed. Fundamental researches were also done for incorporation of the rhyme characters in the Quan Yuanqu. As a result of these studies, aspects of various phonological documents of the Yuan dynasty are clarified in detail, the basic work for incorporation the all previous research materials and results were done.