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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
% b" J2 a3 w( |! Y$ B/ Q! vInitial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
# g _9 G/ K1 k- Wsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,; u/ U4 ^1 } A) R! N
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial! r3 \0 L1 T: T) X1 G" s d; h7 R
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of' e. |8 c6 t/ ]
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
/ I+ _+ N, h+ q& f6 uA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
5 t6 W8 w3 @% @; W[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]7 ]7 M( @9 h; m* |% f0 e
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
1 |6 I. ]% C' q* B6 Pretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
% b9 \) k& ^0 R6 h! gpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset. c7 J4 }- t, Y- W! |! x
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
7 K, w* g8 A" ^, nsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
Q! A/ Z: x4 v p# H- |& Gsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
6 d" ^$ j% x0 send with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In) @0 B1 j: W8 X' O4 X0 t S
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,1 \% X0 }+ y/ c7 N! T, v
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
( Y1 ^4 [- G7 E- n# @9 Z, M: f+ ]+ X( k
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
4 `0 g( Q5 b' |7 @, f( q0 ?3 J, Vand American speakers of English, |
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