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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
# V ~0 ?2 }% @Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the- A3 b0 o) G* S/ b7 `# G7 c
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
( }& { _( E2 A5 _and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
5 h' F+ f. o# S: t9 E(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
2 U' A1 o* i/ _$ _retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
( K' p' S4 Q( W, {* M; PA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=( u! T3 ^. a: @+ K
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
' ~0 ~5 S( U5 U+ v(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving' B- E4 [4 J5 F4 c) F9 k, N
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
' S0 Y6 ` g, q% q- O" |; a _possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset/ t$ \' W4 j% X5 l2 f0 {* L
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
/ z+ o0 `& A; R7 h& xsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
) p& Y* z: p) [1 T" y; wsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
5 o" w2 Y) `: m$ ?4 c) N4 ]: Q" K2 uend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
) {2 p7 \ P3 A/ fcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
" S: t9 r8 e" hthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
% P- S& ~* d0 u, [9 l' l! y2 X/ Y
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
9 F' D' z% t) N0 Xand American speakers of English, |
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