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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The& ]% l9 J ^4 S1 a& J. A
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
1 X: `5 B7 G" Psyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
( E* _" [$ f0 _5 R1 nand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial0 u k- [& S# t s; W
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of1 x5 ]7 N+ W$ i4 |+ p8 a$ P7 Y; r
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
! ~$ x3 q$ g1 i& e9 r1 p' eA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
0 l6 j& w8 Z# h7 P: |$ \[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]9 g4 y3 J0 e* P' p O5 A
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
- w- @# B* v0 z* M8 hretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on0 h* ?9 |$ l4 V2 D4 w* I; ^
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset A8 b3 _: c5 v! @9 B% \+ {
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
- g7 y6 {6 O5 P) k+ @% hsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
, r9 \. A" M7 Hsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
( P0 b" e7 l, yend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In+ ^- y/ Q b- Q2 H9 u) Z
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
% s+ x, r1 \, tthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
% }7 Y+ {3 C% d4 w- V6 a" z
- R& C2 a' }% o(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)* a% e+ Y, j7 e' V# t4 i
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