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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The/ l8 O5 P4 N+ N5 X, A: ?9 z
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the
9 Z3 C! t0 c4 C* c% Q5 O' Tsyllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
6 s' j3 `) k0 U o4 r5 h/ `2 Vand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
' l7 _8 b# a9 W* J/ l5 A(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of8 ?# y2 }: I/ b L
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
' ^3 H& H* H$ a, t' nA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
8 V F; R: m3 M, ^[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
. a- ~$ _* E- b* v(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving; U U& T: k; P0 c
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
& V9 ]$ s- B; D6 \# Fpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset1 g; @& b* [1 y! ^
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two% M1 [+ R, W p* ]) j' Z
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a1 S0 T) P$ S ~
semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.! F7 M, `" ]* Q8 K
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
: N' G) ~ D' m8 F5 U4 V/ Kcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,) V3 l9 Z8 ~7 }! W% C
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..8 H/ D, R2 N) [) t: T0 {
& ?: I+ }& g3 V* s0 D3 v
(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)9 \5 t5 n/ Q$ a' _5 ?7 S( d
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