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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The' J1 C& O X2 P6 I
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
1 t/ X. [+ S* v9 o; B Q4 vsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
: Y+ w* v7 b: ?5 zand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
" S& h+ F) Q9 w' `(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
# D( x/ Q5 S9 O. w, U' ?/ Xretroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
' S* @" h$ z7 m7 M( ^A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=( g& N1 q3 I* l; o$ v8 k/ B0 U
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]: h, O" W( f+ p2 B. Y" E: I
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
0 i8 j- _ S X Z' `( ], ^! |2 l- xretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
. x5 ]- V \ k4 ] X3 q. K3 \3 a$ epossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset, r4 [/ y9 I) p3 P/ o& t: c1 n
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two2 x g% f7 P% N/ G- \/ w
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a) b7 g; u8 {8 v0 K7 e: L0 L2 l, |
semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
8 z2 ?; Q# ~ v3 T/ D! ?: dend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In. k- |0 O2 g P. `( K
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,0 Y0 t( b; I" x5 {6 k o
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
, L/ \7 r' {. o
! X* n" Z6 Q* b) b8 Q( y! t! y) l(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
# X6 g N# T Band American speakers of English, |
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