Weakening of the Word ‘One’ 蜀 in Eastern Mǐn Dialects

Whether with regard to the isolated pronunciation of the word ‘one’ 蜀 or its pronunciation in the construction of ‘蜀 + classifier’ in eastern Mǐn dialects, a regular phonetic correspondence is not necessarily formed between the dialects. This is because of a number of exceptional weakening phonological changes, such as shortening or lowering of tone, iambic stress structure, palatalization of initial consonants, deletion of medials, reduction of markedness of vowels, and deletion of nuclei.