The Tone Sandhi In Zhangcun

This paper is a research on the tone sandhi in Zhangcundialect. The town of Zhangcun lies in the west of Yushan county, and isencircled by Huaiyu mountains. Its transportation service is rather poor, andits dialect is little effected by other dialectso There are distinguishing featuresin the tone sandhi, that is, the tone pitch is reduced commonly after change.and the phenomenon which the tone categories interflow is very common. Inaddition, the pre-character in the two character will almost modify the tone,but the last character changes very little, except in the following threecombination: yinping+yangping, yingping+yangqu, yangping+yangpingo.Otherwise in the combination yangping+yangqu and yingqu+yangping, thereare also some changes in the last word. The characteristic of the last characteris that the tone value will rise up.