论“音近”异形词

《第一批异形词整理表》未涉及音近异形词。音近异形词问题似乎是一个无人发表过比较系统的看法的难题。语言事实证明普通话中确实存在着读音相近的异形词,异形词的音近都是由音同转化而来的,它可以从口语音变、古今音变、方言音变中找到同音的根据,还可以从外语中找到音同的根据。解决异形词音近问题应以语音事实为根据。只要能找到音同的根据,便可纳入异形词规范范围。

On Homophone Variants with Similar Articulation

The First Sorted List of Homophones fails to cover homophone var iants with similar sounds. This is a subtle problem without systematic research in pr evious publications. Linguistic facts bear the evidence of the existence of such words in Putonghua. Their similarity in pronunciation results from assimilation of sounds. In fact they share the same origin of sounds as found in the transfo rmation of speech sounds in colloquialism, archaism, accents of dialects and for eign words. The study of this special case must be carried out on the basis of l inguistic facts. As long as they can be traced to the same sound origin, they mu st be classified in the family of homophones.