漢語方言小稱詞所轄的詞彙不盡相同。臺灣海陸客語有一類詞，如「狗、羊、猴、鵝」等，多數或認為不帶有小稱詞，但本文主張此類詞因音韻條件的高調使然，使得小稱音變較其他類詞的演變速度來得快，之後又因區域方言之間小稱的「天秤效應」而致使海陸腔小稱音的表現處在不平衡的發展之中。本文從客語小稱顯現的對稱性與不對稱性、親屬稱謂詞小稱的不對稱表現、小稱變調形成的推測等三方面，論證臺灣海陸客語小稱表現的不對稱性與高調之間具密切的關係，部分語詞基本調為高調時，實已具有小稱於其中，且小稱形態已消失。新屋海陸腔多數語詞的小稱形態則傾向於消失中，不過小稱卻殘存在元音延展、音高拉高或拉長等方面，而這些現象也可說明新屋海陸腔的小稱詞有過小稱形態，且那個形態最有可能就是和新竹同源的[ə55]。

It has been well-established that the lexical items that can be used with a diminutive marker differ between Chinese dialects. There are a group of words, such as keu 狗, io 羊, heu 猴, o 鵝, that are not considered to be diminutives in Taiwan Hailu Hakka dialects. However, this paper claims that this is because the high tone of this group of lexical items has caused the phonetic change of diminutives in this group to occur faster than in other groups. Further, the balancing effect between the diminutives of area dialects has set the sound change of diminutives in Hailu Hakka on a course of unbalanced development. This paper aims to study the lexical items with high tones connoting a diminutive in Hailu Hakka dialect. The morphological forms of diminutives have been inclined to disappear, but it is still clear that the diminutives survive in features such as a long vowel, long sound, or high tone. These surviving forms suggest that these diminutives in Hailu dialects originally had a morphological form, and that that form probably was [ə55].