Timeline for Why is 的 (de) sometimes pronounced "di" even though it is used as a possessive particle?
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 5:08 | comment | added | mic | Shouldn't /ɪ/ be the short vowel and /iː/ be the long vowel? | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 10:39 | comment | added | Betty | After giving it more thought, now I think this answer is wrong. This answer gives a description of 文白异读 (literary-colloquial distinct readings), but the de/di phenomenon is not 文白异读. See my answer below for more. | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 3:36 | comment | added | dda | There's no such thing as an "informal" pronunciation. Characters like 俾/畀 and 嘅 are nowhere near "new" are are actual words. Cantonese is not a variant of Mandarin that can gets dismissed in a corner. | |
| Dec 8, 2012 at 22:44 | comment | added | Yang | That's incorrect. The new characters were invented for the sole purpose of representing the informal pronunciation; they cannot be understood as actual words. Since the two characters are in fact used equivalently, the linguistics convention is to consider them the same character with a formal and an informal pronunciation. | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 6:21 | comment | added | dda |
给 bei (C), kap (L) 給 is never pronounced bei2. Cantonese has two characters for this: 俾/畀. Likewise, 的 ge (C), dik (L) is incorrect. 的 is dik1 (C), di1 (L). 嘅 is ge3.
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| Oct 11, 2012 at 4:45 | history | edited | 杨以轩 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 21, 2012 at 13:44 | history | suggested | Stumpy Joe Pete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified point about literary vs colloquial readings (I felt "local divergences" made it sound as if colloquial readings were weird, when really the literary ones are phonologically irregular)
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 3:31 | history | answered | Yang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |