Abstract
This paper deals with some of the relationships of initials and finals with nasal endings in the Chinese dialects where these endings have either partially or entirely disappeared: (1) the alternations between *h and *f initials before *u; (2) the disappearance of *u after dental initials in *uen and *ua/□n; (3) the fronting of *□n to *an and of *on to *φn after dental initials; (4) the differentiation in some Wu dialects of *ia/□□ to *a□ and *□□ according to whether the initials were stops (知系) or affricates/fricatives (照系); (5) the appearance of *u after the retroflex initials (照二系) and before *ia/□□; and (6) the lowering in some Wu dialects of the main vowel of *ien/□ after the palatalized velar and laryngeal initials.
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