Research On The Tone Sandhi Of Cangshan Dialect

This paper bases on the natural language resources from Cangshan dialect of Shandong province and Pizhou dialect, east Xuzhou City, Jiangsu province. First, we try to explain the Shang tone sandhi served as the first syllable of two-syllable-group in Putonghua. To analyze diachronically, we consider that the first Shang tone turns to Banshang or Yangping depends on whether the first part of the tone in the second syllable could keep the tendency of the tone in the first syllable. On the basis of this analysis, we submit the concept of tonal dependent relationship and "the hidden tone". We also discussed the "Shang+Shang" tone sandhi in some Guanhua dialects related to Putongua. Then, in the main part, we described the tone sandhi of North Cangshan dialect and South Cangshan dialect, the latter of which was formed by the contact of North Cangshan dialect and Pizhou dialect, Xuzhou City, North Jiangsu province. New forms of tone sandhi appeared in the two-syllable-group words in South Cangshan dialect, the most important of which was the "Shang+Shang" group's turning into "Yang+Shang", formerly considered the same type as in Putonghua, but in fact owning to the close affection of two adjacent dialects. In the end, we come to a conclusion that we ought to analyze the tone sandhi of Guanghua dialect synchronically, diachronically, and pay more attention to the dialect contact.