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In pronunciation of Chinese characters, Go-on of Sino-Japanese closely resembles the colloquial sound form of Southern Min. Especially in the third division rhyme words that should be palatalized sound, both have many non-palatalized sound words. This thesis researched the medial deletion in the third-division rhyme words from a viewpoint of the traditional Chinese phonology and clarified the common part and the different part in both languages. In Southern Min, most of the colloquial words in the new stratum have palatalized sound, but the words in the old stratum have non-palatalized sound. In Go-on of Sino-Japanese, the medial deletion is decided by the position of main vowels and the position relations between onsets and finals. The conditions of the medial deletion in both languages are not same, but I applied the conclusion of this study to the pronunciation rule of Go-on, and showed the corresponding rule of the pronunciation of colloquial words in Southern min and Go-on of Sino-Japanese. It would be my honor to be a help of studying Sino-Japanese for Taiwanese students through this research.
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