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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
4 e' l( A! b' rInitial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the u7 R5 T$ {* A! Y2 W% `
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
8 A, b& G7 D6 Y5 \' @! r1 m; Oand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial/ G6 K7 Z0 d, i& f1 M$ }
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of5 ~! N( U' w d6 C; C
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’)., [& q- \/ Q8 c/ u
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=0 [; ?1 ]" T4 P; }/ j' x& `$ L
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]1 n( P3 @3 \$ J. i
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
4 B4 x, }$ w- M& ?* z0 ^3 cretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on$ U6 r2 K( W' |5 k+ f
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
$ x8 S6 F' G1 y/ w6 @7 a(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
% d' E: I; ^. fsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
5 ^! U4 r& z8 |* R# |$ N1 z+ Csemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
: T5 B O, @8 }; D. G8 B; j+ dend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
& E8 i& Y y m2 `, C( Ucompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,1 d& H+ ~- p$ K( T
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
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+ B3 e. H4 s( k3 \1 g(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
7 L3 f3 s# K, g. S! n, h, Qand American speakers of English, |
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