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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The( D8 Q; D4 x2 x/ R3 \1 ]
Initial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the; C) J7 l) e; l- A% u
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,
( T& [$ ^2 g% h: e q. S! xand uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial
' ]* S1 g- x/ p$ C1 r4 |' i(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
: x3 D- h' S1 ~6 @4 m) m+ ^retroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).
# J8 v* D, P! W2 J MA Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
1 K6 F* X/ f+ z7 F5 S: ~* y: D b1 S[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
/ G3 W- j% Y4 I(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving0 T+ b( y/ J m! d
retroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on# A, t2 C$ U1 W) v
possible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset
$ ~8 u% r7 p, }* W6 X0 A(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two
! |: l l( i3 I% [. [segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
2 y0 `1 ~8 S! a. S, @semivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.
6 S( m) {) I1 p6 \end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In
1 v' p, D. u) m7 U4 L8 g! w* Zcompound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,7 [' m5 }) n- D* X5 `+ x" I
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
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d8 M- ?' W- B3 r, k(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)( E& f! S$ Y1 R) C+ Z
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