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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The3 x" i+ X/ l0 I* |! s
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the. O; N, Q% p! t2 H
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
7 p- J; A% z: ^1 D; Yand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial4 t6 D2 K/ s0 L' J9 t% L! y
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
# L- ?+ b# p: y3 E" W3 W8 Nretroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).$ `) Z! I& }9 w- k; @# P a
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
7 A( K4 b- A6 [* u, Y6 Y[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
- P& H$ u6 X) X) C& A(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving$ s# d1 A \' W9 v, C! @
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
4 n6 c9 V' k. |* xpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
& L4 H( ?/ B1 `' N1 U(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
" e5 h$ j5 E; F. T' q) G1 O. e, Asegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a% b- U, H$ R) @# { S
semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
2 P0 ]/ s! A: Yend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
8 k, V; [; s2 L J9 o, c* _5 ocompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,. ^2 Y g, t4 I
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..8 t- }: q% k3 R, @3 T
1 F) K' I8 ^6 M7 U$ Y( ~
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)/ {" @3 e7 t" |! e' W% u- k
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