Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- PART I. The Principle of Relative Frequency in Respect to Chinese Phonology -- PART II. Relative Frequency, Abbreviation, and Semantic Change -- APPENDIX A. Frequency of Occurrence of Words in Plautus' Aulularia, Mostellaria, Pseudolus, and Trinummus -- APPENDIX B. Phonetic Transcriptions of 20,000 Syllables of the Dialect of Modern Peking -- APPENDIX C. Frequency of Occurrence of Words in the 20,000 Syllables of Appendix Β -- APPENDIX D. Frequency of Occurrence of Syllables in the 20,000 Syllables of Appendix Β