Talk:Syllable onset
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For discussion on merging from Initial (linguistics), see Talk:Syllable rime. -- Felix Wan 19:41, 2005 Mar 5 (UTC)
[edit] Notes on the merge
The source article [1] was solely edited by me, Felix Wan. I have copy-edited everything except this piece of information:
- It is also used in the study of some other Asian languages of these families: Hmong-Mien, Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Tibeto-Burman, etc.
It should be no longer relevant to mention specific language families in an article about a universal linguistic concept. -- Felix Wan 21:55, 2005 Mar 5 (UTC)
[edit] Article must be language-neutral
There's no reason for the article on Syllable onset to focus solely on English and Chinese phonology. The article should be about syllable rime in general, maybe with a couple of examples from Chinese; as it is, it's mostly just a comparison/discussion of english and chinese phonology. The stuff we have here should be in its own article (appropriately titled "chinese syllable structure" or something), or just removed (since this page links to the Chinese version anyway). There is some serious editing that needs to be done here; I will start making some changes soon but hopefully someone who is a phonologist will come forward to do more accurate work than what I can do (and, most importantly, non-language-specific work). This applies to the Syllable rime article as well. --Politizer (talk) 15:25, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
