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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The! `2 ~- V" T1 ~; W$ z2 ?! D
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
6 w2 f" T* D! Wsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,7 P, g. f- R& U- D5 T$ y, _4 b
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial9 _# p6 o/ k: V2 _% R
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of6 s6 v7 a, f z5 ?
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
3 b- E! P' H6 E& PA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
C4 A8 u; r9 }3 Y9 ]3 a% V[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
# W1 Z8 R `9 R' A1 s(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
2 S" S' k( L1 T: E7 Cretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on' d; f2 X0 I9 J) C9 x
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset$ X2 W. P) E0 I+ Q0 x& M9 z
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
. f* ^" s! f9 E% m3 Wsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
: z; D3 w- e8 E; S0 C) ^semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
* m) Q9 |* c5 S: i% E. q' }: Cend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
9 ?" v n" j2 y+ dcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,& X9 R2 d& q7 U: W4 ~
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..: T6 y* `5 l; t6 K3 J& b
+ Z- _& v) E0 r2 n6 n; u- g* {5 ~
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)8 f J9 v0 k: ~
and American speakers of English, |
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