A Study On Tone Sandhi Of The Feng Cheng Dialect In Jiangxi Province

Fengcheng dialect belongs to the Yiliu group in the Gan dialects. It has six tones: yinping, yangping, shangsheng, qusheng, yinru and yangru. This paper discusses the tone sandhi in two-character and the three-character groups of Fengcheng dialect. The tone sandhi in the two-character groups needs to be analysed at two levels: One is the tone sandhi related with neutral tone, the other is the tone sandhi irrelevant with neutral tone. The three-character groups is the combination of one character and two-character groups, so it has two types: "2+1"type and"1+2"type. In the Fengcheng dialect, the tone sandhi of "2+1"type has seven categories, and the tone sandhi of "1+2"type has nine categories.