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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The5 h9 Q8 O! d1 E% u( R) M( t5 U* u
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the! i& B( }( `/ r L5 Z' s4 F
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,4 J+ ?0 O# }2 m% t! Y. _
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
+ y2 e3 D, C2 M8 e6 ^8 y+ Z$ N(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of) I5 \& L9 p/ b& L) P6 Q# \
retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).9 a8 p$ E8 H, k+ ?1 b& U
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (= b! a# [8 E/ m1 ^4 O, J( y
[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
* |* u) P. e9 @- y# f+ z(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
- v5 H0 n8 H M* {( Sretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
[& u. ]' X4 T8 R; W6 rpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
% a7 Q# h' r( ^3 c6 l+ o) `: C(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
. n( q4 X; }+ wsegments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
' E' r- q# ]) Rsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.( S5 @ Q6 ^! k* A) l2 H2 K
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In7 z4 V! c7 ?: a+ a8 i0 d
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,
: \6 K0 d# F' r- O' d1 W. vthe latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..; e5 v( t# n9 o$ i* e( S
0 C( ?, D) F6 q2 ?5 i B" t' o(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch). t) y+ j3 A+ v2 u$ e+ x( A
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