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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The! [1 M1 L! a7 v) y
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the( t; b( v# ]/ F8 h. @
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,3 ^3 F0 l5 O6 k" ~; f0 Y8 h
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
) i Q0 K5 K" s$ t(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of$ j+ A# N+ e7 B3 L' Y
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
7 t8 s; h% K( M( ZA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=9 g V- }8 M( |$ u
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]( Z+ m- B! A3 h- s
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving' k1 I% Z# J% o1 k
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
5 X. h, _1 B& Z- G1 ?8 ?# w9 U5 lpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset- ~* f: H( f3 x# v
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two- y, r0 P+ s& x, z% [1 V
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
t+ P3 D, j2 B6 ^. msemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.5 r) }& J$ K5 Q+ v' A
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In4 O( x0 g$ n5 [. \6 Z4 u. Q
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
$ H1 l: b" A! `6 |# M* ?3 [the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..( @. Y* p9 R* y4 X" d5 K
( s6 g' A) f3 T+ ?% X) y* V) Y
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
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