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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The9 }. |; K' M% {
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
% Y5 N3 G# q. {* Tsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,! @- K( ~6 T/ B! e
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial3 J4 E, f! d, d, g1 M9 t/ |
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of) n7 D% B9 k: f( {% u- T/ {
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).! F" c% ~: v' h0 P9 i* ~- v
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
8 N4 e! G8 F: P: W9 C' z2 S[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]2 \+ Z% p; G9 `/ I
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving2 G; y" G. g- l' I
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
6 b( M2 [/ i' z% a1 gpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
0 J* ^1 Y" l+ p! B6 J- X, x" J(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two3 n+ S0 k2 ^# X% x
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
8 v2 Q7 Q8 V" n5 Tsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
( X! b7 B( x9 N4 ^3 rend with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
! x9 Z* G/ T. p' z, k2 M( E9 gcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
' R, G2 X* x1 }% t2 ^( Q* rthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..! J/ u+ l8 F/ R6 ]6 ]
) u; B' Z, O2 r, b2 B( W(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)! C8 [0 v2 q; L# o) T
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