Research On The Tone Sandhi Of Tangshan Dialect

Tangshan dialect is a dialect which is widely used in Tangshan of Hebei Province.It belongs to the Jizun part of Jilu dialect. Although Tangshan is adjacent to Peking, Tangshan dialect keeps own special features.This kind of features mainly shows in three aspects of phonetics, vocabulary and grammar, particularly Tone Sandhi express obvious features.This paper, taking the Tone Sandhi of Tangshan Dialect as subject matter, bases on the natural language resources from Tangshan dialect and quote from Putonghua and relevant dialect material. The paper firstly commence from the initials, finals and tone of the dialect, analyze the Tone Sandhi of Tangshan Dialect of two word set(not light, not repeat); the light tone of two word set ;the repeat tone of two word set and the three word set .Among them, the light tone two word set is point describing in paper, it include the two kinds of the Tone Sandhi form differently, one is similar to general light tone in Putonghua, the ex-word keeps original tone pitch, is called the common type , another has a decline to adjust the alignment obviously, the ex-word become identical tone pitch ,is called the declinational light tone.In addition, the paper in quoting from a flood of a phrase foundation, discover that the Tone Sandhi of Tangshan Dialect is not pure a variety for adjusting problem ,because of changing to adjust, still causing variety of sense of a word and nature of a word .And, apart from the rule tone sandhi, still exsits the individual abnormal the phenomenon of tone sandhi.The description and analysis of the Tone Sandhi of Tangshan Dialect can make the readers have a profound understanding of its features and provide the data for the futher study of it.