Abstract
This paper, holding that the conventionalization is the most important principle for the standardization of homophones, elaborates on three relevant aspects: 1) There has never been a universal law between the standard form and its variants of a homophone, but only certain principle with supplementary function when some homophones are truly indistinguishable. 2) The homophones sorted out in The Dictionary of Modern Chinese Language should be inherited from a new perspective with the purpose of making them better conformed with current usage. 3) The sorting-out and standardization of those fixed homophones should be prescriptive rather than suggestive.
| Keywords: | homophone; lexical standardization; The First Table of Standardized Homophones |
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