汉语方言声调送气分化现象初探

An Investigation on the Tone-Aspiration-Division in Chinese Dialects

在一些汉语方言中,单字音声调依据声母的送气与不送气分化为不同的调类,我们将其称为“声调送气分化现象”。这种现象在汉语方言中主要分布在吴语区、赣语区、湘语区的部分地区,属于发生在清浊分化之后的二次分化现象。本文从语音学的角度讨论了这种现象的成因,并试图从汉藏系其他语言中寻找相关的证据。

In some Chinese dialects, monosyllabic words are divided into different tones according to the aspirated or unaspirated initial of a syllable. This is termed as Tone-Aspiration-Division in this article, which is a division after the division of voiced and voiceless sounds and found mainly in Wu, Gan, and Xiang Dialects. This paper discusses the cause for this phenomenon from the angle of phonetics and tries to find out some relevant evidence in other Sino-Tibetan languages.