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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The. V( R2 q7 A/ w% p
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
( A- \0 g6 r* Q/ T: esyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,- F+ M# d) I/ O, Y8 O. H! @' b
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial/ e( t1 J* }* l! `
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of, b' z5 D; [ y
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).) }1 e5 T+ N: q+ \* f3 s
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=/ G5 z$ N/ J. |# `! L* k0 i6 F1 Y# M
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]% l/ H7 ~& N4 C' d' n9 a
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
2 ^" A. ?, x' d1 k. _$ X. vretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
" L9 v3 K6 c! O$ m5 `2 E* R0 @possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
7 R2 b0 {8 ]- l, T(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
; C) H9 N! p, [! x4 ^) D& `segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
' U) u* E7 j/ @3 b- V: Hsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.' e; e \# t g
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
" p6 c" W. H0 Q3 m+ o0 wcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,- ~3 g- E0 K5 x# }
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla.. I9 q1 {, ^$ c7 w( ]* g; \
; L o( G* o2 r(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch); E% |5 q$ b" g3 n( d9 K
and American speakers of English, |
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