丰城方言的轻声和连读变调

Neutral Tone or Disyllabic Tone Sandhi in Fengcheng Dialect,Jiangxi Province

本文考察丰城方言的轻声和两字组连读变调。考察结果显示:轻声有高中低三种调值,且落在后字上,主要由前字调决定,与后字调无关。变调出现在前字上,当前字调为上声、去声、阴入时,在特定的条件下产生连读变调。无论轻声还是变调都与语法结构有关。

This paper investigates the neutral tone and disyllabic tone sandhi in Fengcheng dialect, Jiangxi province. It reveals that neutral tone, with high, middle or low pitch, is in the latter syllable determined by the former syllabic tone. The disyllabic tone sandhi is in the former syllable and when it is rising, falling or entering tone, tone sandhi occurs in certain conditions. Either the neutral tone or the disyllabic tone sandhi is related to the underlying semantic structure.