Study Of The Tone Sandhi Of Dingzhou Dialect

Dingzhou City is located in the Northern China Plain,eastward of Taihang Mountain,westward of the center of Hebei Province. Its language can be generally classified as the northern dialect,a kind of Hebei and Shandong official language,used in Dingzhou and Bazhou of Baiding and Tangshan area.The article is to study the principles and rules of tone sandhi of Dingzhou dialect.These thesis marshals the sound system and concludes that there are four tones in Dingzhou dialect through experimental phonetics.Then,the paper describes and explain the tone sandhi of Dingzhou dialect particularly.The paper has three parts,the first is summarization,including the Chapter One.It makes a short summary on some problem about the article and shows the research object is the dialect in Han nationality of the downtown area. The article marshals the phonetic system,then indenfise that there are four tones in Dingzhou.The sceond part is descriptive research,involves the Chapter Two and Chapter Three.In these portion,the article begins the study of tone sandhi from the point view of two-character phrases and three-character phrases,which is also the focus and difficult point as well.On the basis of substantial materials of Dingzhou dialect,the author elaborates its rules and principles of tone sandhi of the general phrases and those with light tones,and reiterative location.the author puts his views as follows:1.The rules of tone sandhi of two- character phrase are simple and unitive.2.The complex of the phrase with light tones lies in the combination of the first tone and light tone.In the case,there are two different pronunciations in Dingzhou dialect.The author guesses it is the coexist of ancient pronunciations and common spoken Chinese.3.The tone sandhi of general three-character phrases on the basis of the rules of that of two- character phrases,using the grammar structure of the three-character phrases as the restricted conduction,which function jointly.4.The rules of tone sandhi of three- character phrases with light tones are restricted only by that of the two- character phrases with light tones and thus are foreign to grammar structure.5.The tone sandhi of the words with reiterative location has their own system.The third part is the Chapter Four,it is the analysis reseach.In the part the author makes some penetration interpretation of the origin of the principles of its existence.The article regarded the style of tone sandhi of Dingzhou dialect is anticipatory dissimilation and its existence relies on the factors of economy and articulation priniples.It shows Low Constrain rule,the Same Contour Constrain rule and High Stable rule which function jointly.