The syllable in Chinese
汉语的音节
Zhiming Bao 包智明

Abstract 摘要
In this paper I examine a few syllable-sensitive phonological processes in Mandarin dialects, including partial reduplication, speech error, game languages, l-words and diminutive affixation. These processes target sub-syllabic constituents, therefore enable us to look into the internal structure of the syllable in Mandarin. I will show that first, the vowel and syllable-final glide or nasal form a constituent, i.e. rime; second, the constituency of the medial glide is not as determinate as commonly assumed; and third, to the extent that it is determinate, the two glides (i and u) exhibit asymmetric behavior with respect to their syllabic position.

本文详细检讨汉语中的一些和音节有关的音韵现象，包括部分重叠，口误，反切语，嵌-l词，以及儿化等。这些音韵现象涉及音节成分，通过分析，我们可以窥视官话音节的内部结构。本文的结论有三个。第一，官话音节的元音和韵尾介音或鼻音组成一个成分，即音基；第二，韵头介音的音节位置不易确定；第三，即使韵头介音的位置能够确定，介音 i 和 u 在音节中的位置不一定对称。

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