| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 4, 2007, 23:54 |
In a message dated 8/4/2007 1:29:12 PM Central Daylight Time, un.doing@GMAIL.COM writes:> At the same time Mandarin does not use the labial glide in finals, > only in initials as a consonant. The vowel series in "zuo4" is > actually a falling opening diphthong - i.e. the main vowel is the [u] > and the glide, if any, is [O]. >I have doubts about this interpretation of which part is the glide. I think it's the 'u' in the middle. stevo </HTML>
| Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |