Phonetics of Modern Standard Mandarin (普通话)

[陳德聰]

In the material you posted, -ing had [iəŋ] as one of the pronunciations.

[Hofmann]

I am just not sure whether I can explain it in English or not

Let me help you. Assimilation.

[BanZhiYun]

@陈德聪 yeah, where you have more than one IPA, the one on the left is 宽式, the one in the right is 严式. Bottom line is that the sound is there, so it should be marked. What our teacher said is that 严式标志的是时间很短暂。

[陳德聰]

Hehe, yes it sounds like you will enjoy your 音韻學 class then, since it will cover these "differences".

Presumably the vowel is just moving further back in anticipation of the velar nasal.

[BanZhiYun]

Yeah,you are right, I can't elaborate myself as well as you when it comes to English.

[BanZhiYun]

Tbh, what I find a little bit more interesting is some ommitions in pinyin, when the sound is still there. e.g. we write "bo po mo fo" but the actual sound is "buo puo muo fuo", there is basically no pure "o" sound in Mandaring (vowel diagram #7). Another example would be the ommition of "e" in "uei" after consonats, e.g. we write "dui, hui, kui", but the real pronunciation is "duei, huei, kuei".

[Little Rabbit]

Do you think the "lei" in Chinese has the same diphthong with "late" in English