Tonal flip-flop in Chinese dialects
汉语方言里的声调阴阳对转
Anne O. Yue-Hashimoto 余霭芹

Abstract 摘要
Although the Yin/Yang dichotomy of tones created by the loss of voicing of syllable initial consonants in general manifest as a higher tone (Yin) in syllables that had voiceless initials and a lower tone (Yang) in syllables that had voiced initials in the majority of Chinese dialects, in a significant number of modern dialects it manifests as the opposite pitch pattern for one or more categories of tones in citation forms. It is only in this minority of dialects that tonal flip-flop is found and reversal of pitch value is common. In addition, the synchronic sandhi behavior of these dialects suggests the following sequence of change diachronically: Yin/Yang split of tones followed by a pitch reversal change probably caused by prejunctural stress.

虽然在大部分现代汉语方言里，声调阴阳分化的结果是中古带清声母的音节音调较高（阴调），带浊声母的音节音调较低（阳调）；可是在不少方言里，有相反的情况，而且只在这些方言里出现了调值阴阳对转的现象。同时，这些方言的连调变化暗示着下列历时性的演变过程：先发生声调阴阳化，后来调值的阴阳对转很可能是受末音节重音的影响而产生的。

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