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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The; I7 s8 A3 Z) R: y
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
, J3 `- B' b! K7 y- _syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
7 Y+ ~& _" u" g& i3 ?and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
! q2 p6 x* o& K, |4 O- v1 z1 g(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
4 K+ q) [; ~ b9 v: k) wretroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
# r5 a! x) h% {A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
2 r" s9 z% M8 G& j- W( P, U/ i[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”] k$ d7 u. j) N Y# f; H
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
$ R7 y7 k' c* u" L$ P- oretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on0 E2 T; n/ [3 G* H2 }& ]
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
6 I1 `9 {$ W* n7 e$ o$ s(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
" C" A( F# w/ V0 [3 e# |segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
) Z& v$ D% U; s. D B2 {: jsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
, \/ M4 B" M% eend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
4 ^& U+ K/ z7 `& ~. r- s2 Jcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
1 g. E1 L5 ?# R& @# ?3 _1 qthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..& i; B+ e9 }0 ~+ w6 G. B
4 M, ]4 _* g1 O; ]
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
; p) E0 r; F: p, A$ A) o) T" ~6 Land American speakers of English, |
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