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Traditional Chinese phonology divides the syllable into an Initial and Final. The
8 d8 Y/ c8 D" Q4 HInitial is the way a syllable begins, usually with a consonant. The Final is the% ~/ U8 m* A& C2 ~$ b3 B$ @) Z
syllable minus the Initial. For example, in ta, chi, jin, chuang, the Finals are a, i, in,+ U2 v; p2 O. I/ P$ ?% |
and uang, respectively. The longest form of a Final consists of three parts: a medial5 V; H3 C; v4 E6 \0 K
(or: semivowel), a main vowel (or: head vowel), and an ending (or, in the case of
, v4 n3 ]3 {# {, cretroflex suffixes, sometimes two endings, as in the er-sound ming’er ‘tomorrow’).9 r- M6 x3 T" t; k
A Final in Mandarin comprises one of four medials: º (empty), /i/, /u/, or /iu/ (=
7 X9 A6 r, K- f! N: k9 `. x[y], one of three vowels: /a/, /e/, or /o/, and one of six endings: º, -i, -u, -n, -N, and [”]
2 f9 T) X5 U0 W# }8 [9 C1 V6 y(phonetically -r).13 Actually, there are only 40 different Finals (if Finals involving
: T& a6 Q7 C. lretroflex suffixes are not counted). As a result of these very severe restrictions on
( [( [& i' q$ M6 [3 O( E( vpossible syllables in Mandarin, no obstruent clusters are possible in the onset, d5 }! l" F1 r* \
(Initial) nor in the coda (Final). Onset clusters can maximally have a length of two i* H/ E4 {9 \( g# d. V% C
segments, in which case the consonant closest to the vocalic nucleus must be a
4 E" M. M! J! ~, r- X3 J: Jsemivowel. Coda clusters are disallowed; in fact, syllables are generally open, i.e.. ]) I# O8 v) |6 e& I
end with a vowel. The only possible coda consonants are the nasals /n/ and /N/. In `; T! M9 N0 ]" G1 M* i( V
compound vowels with /a, e, o/ as the first segment and /i, u/ as the second element,5 u, D5 _2 |- p6 s3 q% C2 `
the latter are phonetically realised as semivowels, creating a diphthong. .. bla...bla... bla..
! s( \6 w4 v7 j( y
% K# e( y, R7 Y; K(source: Wang Hongyan, year unkown, English as a lingua franca:Mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch)) I/ ^6 l9 Q6 p: Y, p0 r% L
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狗仔卡
发表于 2009-4-18 08:18
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显身卡
发表于 2009-4-18 10:05
