Wang Pu
The actual phonetic values of these tones were not prescribed in the 1919 edition of the "Dictionary of National Pronunciation". Although various proposals of merging values from different areas of China were raised, the "de facto" standard was to use the tonal system of Beijing, and to simply read the entering tone (which the Beijing dialect lacked as a distinctive tone) as a shortened departing tone, falling in nature, as shown from sets of gramophone recordings of Wang Pu, a member of the Commission, and of noted linguist Yuen Ren Chao.