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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
C4 @1 c# D D) N1 U. S# `Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
. E! M! t; V4 Q" _syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
2 x2 P+ I; \8 @. cand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
' I+ g( A" r( ^7 Y9 E& I- d(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of- @- X# h0 s% h- |
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
# Y" l- j6 b$ z! W; k. q) @8 c- OA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (= B5 z7 M' F+ J/ \+ l
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”] w% ~" S4 c6 \. [: M
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving# ^& X+ h; T! x% \" v' T' Q) z6 ~
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
) I2 `0 X8 r3 L& b3 g4 c* a- X9 fpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset6 ~9 i, s/ D, F8 H5 n
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
7 }! _) a4 L( ~! n& |5 ~: T' Asegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
. n s- B, U7 k2 X; C! lsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.8 a7 j* E( Y! C2 ?6 k5 i
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
; [+ D- u# m" n' {compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,6 ? U! d1 N+ s: M O, S
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
7 ]3 i1 u( K4 [( P$ q* g
1 F2 i+ `0 S9 ]) o(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
0 O+ s1 k% f& a: Y% e8 H3 Hand American speakers of English, |
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