In Standard Mandarin, a mid vowel agrees in [back] and [round] features with adjacent glides. A mid vowel preceded by a front rounded glide [É¥], however, is only partially assimilated, resulting in a ...
In Northeastern Mandarin, rhotacization is an oral phenomenon related to the rhotic vowel appearing in rhymes suffixed with - å„¿/Éš/and it occurs only in a specific context, when there is the creation ...
Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. Finals are the second part of a mandarin syllable and may consist of one or more vowel sounds. Some characters might not have initials, but ...