On Interruption and Suspension of Tone Sandhi in the Hakka Dialect Spoken in the"San-Tang"Region,Fengshun County,Guangdong Province
There are in total 26 initial consonants,62 vowels and 2 semi-vowels in the Hakka dialect or"Kakga"[Kǎkgā]which is spoken in the"San-Tang"Region,that is,the three towns of Tangkeng,Tangxi,and Tangnan in Fengshun County,Guangdong Province.On the basis of 6 static tones,this dialect triggers a mechanism of tone sandhi in which three patterns of modification are i-dentified,that is,the falling,the falling-rising,and the rising modification.The falling and the rising modification also apply to ente-ring tones,bringing about two additional dynamic tones,that is,the falling-entering and the rising-entering.In addition,this mecha-nism can be used to determine the types of tones and their pitch values.Successive tone modifications,which are classified into the mono-tonic and the multi-tonic,are identified to have two modes of cessation,that is,sandhi interruption and sandhi suspension.A-mong these,compulsory sandhi suspensions are verified to serve various grammatical functions,including:ideational function,inter-personal function,and textual function.Since they specify the internal logic of clause complexes,sandhi suspensions have semantic effects that are conducive and demonstrative in grammatical analysis.
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