The Sandhi Of Xingtai Dialect

Xingtai city which is located in southwest of Hebei province, is situated in a transitional belt between Jin dialect ang Ji lu Mandarin. Xingtai has jurisdiction over sixteen counties. Among them, there are two counties that contain entering tone. Xingtai county is special, it not only includes JiLu Mandarin but also Jin dialect. The sandhi in Xingtai Mandarin area, especially suffixation of a nonsyllabic "Er" final varied pattern of suffix "Zi","Le","Zhe" and so on, which belong to the sandhi that is connected with means and syllable, is very abundance. This dissertation makes the sandhi in Xingtai Mandarin as the subjection, and makes the sandhi which concludes suffixation of a no syllabic "Er" final varied pattern of suffix "Zi","Le","Zhe" and so on, that is connected with means and syllable as the emphasis of researching. At the same time, we developed an investigation of field and studied of combined between diachronic and synchronic.The valuable researches in this dissertation concluded that:1. In the Mandarin area of Xingtai county, the other tones happened to change in disyllabic word of heavy-heavy-duty, except the high and level tone. In disyllabic word of heavy-light-duty, when the former belongs to the high and rise tone, it will happen to change if the rear word belongs to vocabulary words of neutral tone, the other situations will not change. In the tone sandhi of overlapping words, only part of nouns of high and level tone happen to change tones.2. In Xingtai dialects,"Er" suffixation has much strong function of struction, moreover, the dialects have two special phenomenons, that is increasing "Er"suffixation after "Zi" suffixation and "De" noun phrase. There are much differences between Xingtai dialects and common language in the rhyme of "Er"suffixation, among them,there is a group than preserved the earlier figure of [-(?)] last syllable.3. In the Mandarin area of xingtai county, final varied patterns of suffix"Zi","Le"," Zhe ", "[(?)]" in group of words and the streaming words would take place the situations of derivative initial and rhyme, modulation, these situations have great differences with the similar changes in Shanxi and Henan. Final varied patterns of suffix "Zi" in Xingtai dialects have two styles which are suffixation of a nonsyllabic "Er" and non-suffix "Er". These two styles have different derivative form. Non-suffix "Er" of "Zi" contains two types:increasing sound suffix-Zi, combining sound and derivative form. In the suffixation of a nonsyllabic "Er", suffix "Zi" does not combine with the former word, it sounds as a independent neutral tone [.t(?)]. Final varied patterns of suffix"Zi","Zhe","Le" includes there types of derivative form:increasing sound, combining sound and derivative form, variational and transitional type. In the same type, they have the same or similar laws.This dissertation can provide the necessary supplement to the investigation and research of dialects of Hebei, and it also has a certain reference value for researching sandhi of Xingtai dialects.