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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
' [. O+ w/ @+ D6 v* z FInitial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the3 I# V: C: o. I. N# \2 F6 n" a
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
/ E4 s' \; z4 R' n: K Cand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial- }' Z- N, u" {
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of/ B" g/ S# X$ ~; A4 [8 h" P3 r
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).. \' N& Y. p- W( s i
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=" M0 C7 b3 @) q/ q' O9 j Z
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]5 P8 @3 g. ^* h
(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
9 \5 ] Z' ~/ U. n! o. Q! W' E, Qretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on8 y- Q1 `" E! y( z+ w4 y0 S n5 Q U
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
; l0 x5 c9 l! E+ d K- z. @(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
. n O' v9 C; e+ Z2 d# Q9 X0 Fsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
0 A- Q' h. V, T7 s1 ^semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
% Z; s8 W z& m4 @1 \end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
( \+ m: `1 _" H2 S% b3 Y! v6 ?compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
+ N& G* o3 J( B$ B+ n cthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..% Z! b; [9 ]( G
/ z# F; P. ]# s, E3 f+ p(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)
( N1 G" B: X4 f& c( ~3 }# v2 g3 oand American speakers of English, |
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