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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The. o1 w2 ]3 ]. B0 x/ S7 v2 T
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
; ^4 w" W3 |' L. s3 G$ J( [ Nsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
s2 M0 E2 S) F# h0 T* p( N) Aand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
! k A6 o% S8 C9 I(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of D' p5 @: E$ y# f
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
% l+ B# u3 q! q/ I& J2 o4 AA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=& a: A; V, Y4 Q! _7 N
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
- v+ q1 x3 l) I; I' F% e(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
3 d# S+ d) K9 Y( S) L0 N7 h% Fretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on' b' r1 o3 [+ I+ P8 ?
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
0 e- I( m* F- E( x; F(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two6 K! ~" Q4 u% R9 l' `
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a' b) o+ T' U. }. u7 _+ z$ [
semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
' w# _+ B" ^, g/ v; R( W v7 }% Oend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
. J+ ^1 v8 ^! ~9 W6 b3 Ucompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,- c* {8 w) H! i) o5 B
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..6 h1 h: q/ K: i6 b4 K* j# a
" g9 u& Y; k, b: r+ x2 M4 C: ?/ Z
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)# V, o8 P0 ]3 p* L" }, p
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