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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
& H. t% Q" q4 n4 D7 O; S h6 iInitial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
0 U7 A5 q; {/ X' Fsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,* J5 w! V t2 U! h+ G/ v
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial2 K- n3 d4 ?2 F( e! @" t1 P6 Z! k
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of0 e% j, L3 I, S
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
/ m' C5 T, i& t8 W Y( p0 Z* y" IA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
8 o% Q' Q R& s1 ?[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]4 Y( u2 U4 G# M8 e
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving: _& ^: T& A1 _' x% y6 w0 E7 y# O3 k
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
* j( I1 P8 T6 i4 m k3 c7 J+ Tpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset) A( c9 b/ F0 }( U( y5 d- E
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
6 a; P4 @0 c. [3 T: Hsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
0 X# j, o: ]' Bsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
7 r6 M# R/ f7 T) J4 nend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
+ r n( X, P# ]3 I" \7 Wcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
! e5 n8 A- d+ d* v9 [0 s6 I' M+ lthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
! I- N- b$ U. i' h/ k7 @" _8 \% N3 T" ]* o$ F. F# } P5 f* L
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
( k( \/ z+ G' ^2 ~7 Qand American speakers of English, |
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