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AKAMATSU, NOBUHIKO. "A similarity in word-recognition procedures among second language readers with different first language backgrounds." Applied Psycholinguistics 23, no. 1 (2002): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716402000061.

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This study investigated word recognition among fluent readers of English as a second language (ESL). Specifically, the study examined whether ESL readers' first language (L1) affects the procedures underlying second language word recognition, with respect to the effects of word frequency and regularity on word recognition. The results revealed a similarity in word-recognition procedures between fluent ESL readers with various L1 backgrounds (i.e., Chinese, Japanese, and Persian). In processing high-frequency words, all the ESL groups recognized exception words as quickly as regular words; low-

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Allen, David. "The prevalence and frequency of Japanese-English cognates: Recommendations for future research in applied linguistics." International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 57, no. 3 (2019): 355–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral-2017-0028.

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Abstract Research has demonstrated that cognates are processed and acquired more readily than noncognates regardless of whether the languages share a common script or etymological background (e. g., Japanese and English). Very little research, however, has focused on the prevalence and frequency of cognates in orthographically distinct languages. Using Japanese word frequency data, the present study demonstrates that between 49 % and 22 % of the most common 10000 words in English are cognate in Japanese, depending on the frequency threshold used. The analysis is extended to the Academic Word L

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MIWA, KOJI, TON DIJKSTRA, PATRICK BOLGER, and R. HARALD BAAYEN. "Reading English with Japanese in mind: Effects of frequency, phonology, and meaning in different-script bilinguals." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17, no. 3 (2013): 445–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728913000576.

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Previous priming studies suggest that, even for bilinguals of languages with different scripts, non-selective lexical activation arises. This lexical decision eye-tracking study examined contributions of frequency, phonology, and meaning of L1 Japanese words on L2 English word lexical decision processes, using mixed-effects regression modeling. The response times and eye fixation durations of late bilinguals were co-determined by L1 Japanese word frequency and cross-language phonological and semantic similarities, but not by a dichotomous factor encoding cognate status. These effects were not

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Ejiri, Koichi, Niklaus Staeheli, and Shiori Ooaku. "Word frequency distribution in Japanese text*." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 1, no. 3 (1994): 212–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296179408590019.

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Allen, David. "Cognate frequency and assessment of second language lexical knowledge." International Journal of Bilingualism 23, no. 5 (2018): 1121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006918781063.

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Few studies have investigated different-script cognate effects in language assessment contexts. This paper examines the impact of Japanese cognates in a test of English receptive lexical knowledge that is widely used for placement purposes in second language learning contexts. Specifically, the present paper utilizes Japanese cognate frequency to predict test accuracy. 1. Does Japanese cognate frequency influence response accuracy? 2. Does the effect vary by English word frequency and/or lexical proficiency? Design/methodology/approach: Seventy J

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Yamada, Jun, and Yuriko Kayamoto. "Valency, secondary frequency, and lexical access: A Japanese study." Applied Psycholinguistics 19, no. 1 (1998): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716400010596.

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AbstractThis study examines the effect of valency (defined as the associative value that represents the number of two-kanji words containing in first or second position the first-positional kanji of the word) on the recognition of two-kanji words in Japanese. Lexical decisions were 24 ms faster for words in the high-valency condition than in the low-valency condition, but were 26 ms slower for nonwords in the high-valency condition than in the low-valency condition. While these results suggested a significant interaction between valency and wordness, a regression analysis indicated that the fr

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Li, Wenchao. "Morphosyntactic Complexity in Old Japanese." European Journal of Statistics and Probability 10, no. 2 (2022): 14–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ejsp.2013/vol10n21428.

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Old Japanese (592–794 AD) had a uniquely complex writing system: variant Chinese; classical Chinese; man'yōgana; senmyoo gaki. This study takes a mathematical linguistic approach, employing word length and dependency distance as metrics of the lexical and syntactic complexity of Old Japanese. We find that the distribution of Japanese dependency directions is balanced, indicating that Japanese is neither a strongly head-initial nor strongly head-final language. Neither an advcl relation nor a cc relation are detected, suggesting that syntactic structure in Old Japanese is simpler than Modern Ja

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Stubbe, Raymond, and Kosuke Nakashima. "Examining Katakana Synform Errors Made by Japanese University Students." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 9, no. 1 (2020): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v09.1.stubbe.nakashima.

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Laufer (1988) introduced the concept of synform errors, where second language (L2) learners confuse a word for a different but similar looking or sounding L2 word. Stubbe and Cochrane (2016) reported that of 1,187 commonly repeated errors on a Japanese to English non-contextual translation test, 461 were synform errors (39%). This study introduces the concept of katakana consonant pairing synform errors, where Japanese learners of English can confuse one English word for another because some English consonants have no Japanese equivalent, for example, l and v. Words containing these consonants

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Rzhevska, Dariia. "ARBITRARINESS OF SOUND SYMBOLYSM IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE." Odessa Linguistic Journal, no. 12 (2018): 89–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.32837/2312-3192/12/13.

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The article determines that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the world’s languages. A long history of research has considered the role of iconicity in language and the existence and role of non-arbitrary properties in language and the use of language. Recent research in English and Japanese suggests a more textured view of vocabulary structure, in which arbitrariness is complemented by iconicity (aspects of form resemble aspects of meaning) and systematicity (statistical regularities in for

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Allen, David. "A Procedure for Determining Japanese Loanword Status for English Words." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 9, no. 1 (2020): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v09.1.allen.b.

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Japanese loanwords are mainly derived from English. These loanwords provide a considerable first-language (L1) resource that may assist in second-language (L2) vocabulary learning and instruction. However, given the huge number of loanwords, it is often difficult to determine whether an English word has a loanword equivalent and whether the loanword is likely to be widely known among the Japanese. This article demonstrates an efficient method of answering these two questions. The method employs corpus frequency data from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, from which the exis

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Bahkmatova, Anna. "Strategies of new words formation in Chinese and Japanese in the 21st Century." Litera, no. 4 (April 2025): 110–30. https://doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2025.4.74033.

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In the 21st century, globalization has led to the emergence of new objects, concepts, and phenomena, prompting the creation of new words and neologisms. Languages that use logographic writing systems possess a unique tool for recording neologisms, which enables them to coin new words not only through phonetic borrowings but also by creating compounds from meaningful character-morphemes that reflect the essence of the concepts they denote. This article explores the strategies of recording and the methods of forming new words in 21st-century Chinese and Japanese, as well as the relationships bet

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AGUADO-OREA, Javier, Hannah WITHERSTONE, Lisa BOURGEOIS, and Ana BASELGA. "Learning to construct sentences in Spanish: a replication of the Weird Word Order technique." Journal of Child Language 46, no. 6 (2019): 1249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000448.

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AbstractIn the present study, children's early ability to organise words into sentences was investigated using the Weird Word Order procedure with Spanish-speaking children. Spanish is a language that allows for more flexibility in the positions of subjects and objects, with respect to verbs, than other previously studied languages (English, French, and Japanese). As in prior studies (Abbot-Smith et al., 2001; Chang et al., 2009; Franck et al., 2011; Matthews et al., 2005, 2007), we manipulated the relative frequency of verbs in training sessions with two age groups (three- and four-year-old c

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Agus Suherman Suryadimulya and Tadashi Sakamoto. "Lexical Analysis of Japanese Children’s Songs from the Perspective of Japanese Language Education." Forum for Linguistic Studies 6, no. 4 (2024): 342–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/fls.v6i4.6754.

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Japanese children's songs can be a valuable resource for adult learners of the language, Firstly, the vocabulary used in children's songs is predominantly high-frequency and foundational, with a large portion falling below the N2 proficiency level. By mastering the words and phrases found in these songs, learners can expand their conversational abilities beyond the confines of traditional textbooks. Secondly, the songs offer a balanced representation of positive, negative, and neutral emotions, reflecting the emotional range and nuances of the Japanese language. This exposure to diverse emotio

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Zhang, Dan. "A Corpus-based Investigation of Like Expressions in Japanese." Literature Language and Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (2025): 9. https://doi.org/10.63313/llcs.2001.

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The Japanese word "好きだ" (suki da, like) is a な-adjective (adjectival noun) used to express preferences. It typically appears in the structure "～が好きだ" to indicate liking someone or something. However, in practical Japanese usage, the structure "～を好きだ" is also used in certain contexts, raising questions about its grammatical variability and acceptability in modern Japanese. With advances in large-scale corpora, language research has increasingly transitioned into the era of big data, allowing for more systematic and empirical analysis of linguistic patterns. This study explores the grammatical r

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Higginbotham, G., I. Munby, and J. Racine. "A Japanese Word Association Database of English." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 4, no. 2 (2015): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v04.2.higginbotham.et.al.

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In this paper, two word association (WA) studies are presented in support of recent arguments against the use of native-speaker (NS) norms in WA research. In Study 1, first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) WA norms lists were developed and compared to learner responses as a means of measuring L2 proficiency. The results showed that L2 norms provided a more sensitive measure of L2 lexical development than did traditional NS norms. Study 2 was designed to test the utility of native norms databases in predicting the primary WA responses of Japanese learners to high-frequency English cues. W

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ANDO, ERIKO, KAZUNAGA MATSUKI, HEATHER SHERIDAN, and DEBRA JARED. "The locus of Katakana–English masked phonological priming effects." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18, no. 1 (2014): 101–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728914000121.

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Japanese–English bilinguals completed a masked phonological priming study with Japanese Katakana primes and English targets. Event related potential (ERP) data were collected in addition to lexical decision responses. A cross-script phonological priming effect was observed in both measures, and the effect did not interact with frequency. In the ERP data, the phonological priming effect was evident before the frequency effect. These data, along with analyses of response latency distributions, provide evidence that the cross-script phonological priming effects were the consequence of the activat

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Ishikawa, Yoshie, Ayano Otaki, Hiromu Okamura, and Tomohiko Shirahata. "Measuring the English vocabulary acquisition of Japanese learners." Studies in English Language and Education 11, no. 1 (2024): 59–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/siele.v11i1.30460.

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The measurable vocabulary knowledge of Japanese learners of English (JLEs) has yet to be fully investigated. This study, therefore, attempts a detailed investigation of JLEs’ vocabulary knowledge to clarify the relationship between the frequency of words and their difficulty level and to identify the factors that affect the difficulty of vocabulary learning. We tested 192 university-level JLEs on 1,035 verbs, requesting that they choose a correct Japanese translation. The average number of correct answers for each verb was compared with its frequency ranking. Moreover, the characteristics of v

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Saji, Noburo, Chunzi Hong, and Chong Wang. "Learning semantic categories of L2 verbs: The case of cutting and breaking verbs." PLOS ONE 19, no. 1 (2024): e0296628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296628.

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To attain native-like proficiency in second-language word usage, learners have to discover intricate semantic categories in the target language. We investigated the factors influencing the development of two aspects of second-language learners’ semantic categories: the category center and category boundary of word meanings. In the experiment, second-language learners of Japanese, whose first language is Mandarin, were asked to produce the best verb for 28 videos depicting various cutting and breaking events. Descriptive analyses were conducted to compare the verb patterns used by second-langua

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Kononova, I. V., and E. Yu Matsugina. "Criteria for Identifying the Basic Japanese Artonyms in the English Language: a Corpus-Based Approach." Discourse 11, no. 3 (2025): 141–51. https://doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2025-11-3-141-151.

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Introduction. The article tests the hypothesis about the possibility of recognizing borrowed lexical units as the basic xenonyms of the language on the basis of corpus data. The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the fact that there have been no previous attempts to identify the degree of assimilation of Japanese artonyms in English using corpus analysis methods, including the collocation method. The relevance of the study lies in the development of research tools of interlinguoculturalology, the study of the layer of xenonymic lexicon significant for the English-language descrip

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Sasao, Yosuke, and Stuart Webb. "The Word Part Levels Test." Language Teaching Research 21, no. 1 (2016): 12–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362168815586083.

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Knowledge of English affixes plays a significant role in increasing knowledge of words. However, few attempts have been made to create a valid and reliable measure of affix knowledge. The Word Part Levels Test (WPLT) was developed to measure three aspects of affix knowledge: form (recognition of written affix forms), meaning (knowledge of affix meanings), and use (knowledge of the syntactic properties of affixes). A total of 118 derivative affixes were selected based on frequency data from the British National Corpus. First, data was collected from 417 Japanese university students to revise po

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Oeinada, I. Gede. "Five Japanese Synonymous Verbs GO." e-Journal of Linguistics 15, no. 1 (2020): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/e-jl.2021.v15.i01.p07.

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The proper use of synonymous words is a problem that is often faced by foreign language learners. Native speakers of a language often experience difficulties when asked to explain the differences in synonymous words. They use their linguistic instincts to differentiate the use of these words, or what in Japanese is called kan ?. This paper raises the synonym of the verb 'go' which in Japanese has five words, namely omomuku ??, irassharu ??????, mairu ??, kaeru ??, and iku ??. This paper uses a qualitative descriptive method. Synonyms of these verbs will be observed based on the frequency of th

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Nakamura, Hiroko, and Bettina Begole. "Effects of L1 and L2 Communication Apprehension on Speaking Skills of Japanese University Students." English Language Teaching 16, no. 5 (2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v16n5p1.

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This study explores the effect of communication apprehension in both L1 and L2 on proficiency in word stress of Japanese university students. Two structured, closed-ended questionnaires, the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA) and the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) were utilized along with speaking scores. A target word in an exclamatory sentence was used to examine word stress that affects intelligibility in spoken English. Acoustic correlates of the differences between stressed and unstressed syllables were investigated with four acoustic parameters: fundam

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Racine, John. "Cognitive Processes in Second Language Word Association." JALT Journal 30, no. 1 (2008): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.37546/jaltjj30.1-1.

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This study utilizes a word association (WA) paradigm to infer similarities and differences between processes used to access the mental lexicons of native speakers (NS) and Japanese nonnative speakers of English (NNS). Three hypotheses were examined: a) grammatical word stimuli will elicit proportionately fewer paradigmatic responses than will content words; b) The proportion of phonologically-related responses will increase when stimuli are presented aurally rather than in written format;and c) NNS responses to infrequent words will not differ from responses to common words if a loan word equi

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Uehara, Suwako, Hibiya Haraki, and Stuart McLean. "Developing a Discipline-Specific Corpus and High-Frequency Word List for Science and Engineering Students in Graduate School." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 11, no. 2 (2022): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v11.2.uehara.

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Japanese graduate school students in the field of science and engineering need to read academic research in their second language (L2), and such tasks can be challenging. Studies showed a strong (0.78) correlation between vocabulary size and reading comprehension (McLean et al., 2020), and providing high-frequency word lists could enhance comprehension. In this work-in-progress, 1.35 million tokens of professor-recommended reading materials were used to investigate a method to create a vocabulary list that would benefit science majors in graduate school; the procedures to create a corpus and a

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Yamamoto, Mikio, and Kenneth W. Church. "Using Suffix Arrays to Compute Term Frequency and Document Frequency for All Substrings in a Corpus." Computational Linguistics 27, no. 1 (2001): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/089120101300346787.

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Bigrams and trigrams are commonly used in statistical natural language processing; this paper will describe techniques for working with much longer n-grams. Suffix arrays (Manber and Myers 1990) were first introduced to compute the frequency and location of a substring (n-gram) in a sequence (corpus) of length N. To compute frequencies over all N(N+1)/2 substrings in a corpus, the substrings are grouped into a manageable number of equivalence classes. In this way, a prohibitive computation over substrings is reduced to a manageable computation over classes. This paper presents both the algorit

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Patterson, Allie. "Predicting second language listening functor comprehension probability with usage-based and embodiment approaches." International Journal of Bilingualism 25, no. 3 (2021): 772–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13670069211000851.

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Aims and Objectives: Embodiment is a major paradigm of first language (L1) research but has not yet been widely adopted in second language (L2) research. The main objective of this research was to find evidence for the effects of sensorimotor embodiment on L2 listening functor comprehension rates. Research Hypothesis: Frequency, word length, and Minkowski3 sensorimotor norms are significantly predictive of functor comprehension probability in an L2 listening task. Methodology: 129 Japanese participants were administered a paused transcription test that contained twelve target phrases. Data and

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Nakata, Tatsuya. "DOES REPEATED PRACTICE MAKE PERFECT? THE EFFECTS OF WITHIN-SESSION REPEATED RETRIEVAL ON SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY LEARNING." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 39, no. 4 (2016): 653–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263116000280.

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Although research shows that repetition increases second language vocabulary learning, only several studies have examined the long-term effects of increasing retrieval frequency in one learning session. With this in mind, the present study examined the effects of within-session repeated retrieval on vocabulary learning. The study is original in that it (a) gave posttests after a delay greater than 2 weeks, (b) employed a paired-associate format to exert strict control over the treatment, (c) considered time-on-task as a factor, and (d) used the same target items for different frequency levels.

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IZOTOV, ANDREY I., and OLGA I. CHERCHUK. "JA PANESE LOANWORDS IN THE CZECH NATIONAL CORPUS." Lomonosov Journal of Philology, no. 2, 2023 (May 1, 2023): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0075-9-2023-47-2-7.

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The article discusses some aspects of the functioning of Czech nouns of Japanese origin. Both lexical Japanisms named in the New Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Czech Language (2016) and nouns included in the Neomat electronic database in 2019, 2020 and 2021 are considered. The data of the Czech written and spoken corpora, which are constituents of the Czech National Corpus project, are used. The absolute and relative frequency of use of a particular lexeme, as well as its ARF (= Average Reduced Frequency) was determined with the help of the 4.9 billion-strong corpus of modern written Czech tex

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Sakaba, Hiroko, and Takeshi Okada. "Usage Patterns and Meanings of High-Frequency English Verbs: A Multi-Word Expression Approach to Japanese High School EFL Textbook Analysis." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 10, no. 4 (2021): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.4p.116.

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This article aims to classify the overall uses of high-frequency English verbs in a novel methodology from both a pattern and meaning perspective, which has not be done in previous studies, with special reference to TAKE and MAKE. In the pattern-based analysis, all occurrences of these two verbs were collected from Japanese EFL textbook corpus, and the usage patterns of the extracted two target verbs were categorized into three major multi-word expression types: phrasal verbs, grammatical collocations, and lexical collocations. To further investigate the patterns of uses, some multi-word units

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Ota, Mitsuhiko. "Input Frequency and Word Truncation in Child Japanese: Structural and Lexical Effects." Language and Speech 49, no. 2 (2006): 261–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00238309060490020601.

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Nomura, Jun, and Keiichi Ishikawa. "Effects of first language processes and representations on second language perception: The case of vowel epenthesis by Japanese speakers." International Journal of Bilingualism 22, no. 1 (2016): 69–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006916654997.

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Japanese speakers are known to perceive “illusory vowels” within consonant clusters illicit in their language. The present study examines how this perceptual vowel epenthesis is affected by first language (L1) processes (restoration of vowels devoiced through Japanese high vowel devoicing), L1 representations (loanword representations in Japanese speakers’ lexicons), and proficiency in English. Design/methodology/approach: The participants judged the presence or absence of a mora (e.g., ム /mu/) in an auditorily presented English word (e.g., homes

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KAJIKAWA, SACHIYO, SHIGEAKI AMANO, and TADAHISA KONDO. "Speech overlap in Japanese mother–child conversations." Journal of Child Language 31, no. 1 (2004): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000903005968.

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This study aimed to clarify the development of conversational style in Japanese mother–child interactions. We focused on the frequency of speech overlap as an index of Japanese conversational style, with particular attention to ne, a particle produced by the speaker, and to backchannels, such as ‘uh-huh’, produced by the listener that support sympathetic conversation. The results of longitudinal observations of two Japanese mother–child dyads from approximately 0;11 to 3;3 suggest that an adultlike conversational style with frequent overlaps emerges in Japanese child-directed speech around the

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Zhang, Yang, Keita Tanaka, and Toshiaki Imada. "Influences of talker gender on second language speech perception." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 151, no. 4 (2022): A263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0011278.

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This study examined how talker gender information may influence second language speech perception. The participants were ten right-handed male Japanese adults with normal hearing. The speech stimuli were two minimal pairs of English words, “heed-hod” and “head-had”, recorded from twenty male and twenty female native English speakers. The stimuli were delivered binaurally at a sensation level of 50 dB. In the gender recognition task, the subjects were asked to judge talker gender. In the vowel recognition task, they were asked to identify the vowel category. Magnetoencephalography data were rec

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Editors, ALA. "Foreword." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 11, no. 1 (2021): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.11.1.5.

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The winter issue of Volume 11 presents a selection of seven different research articles on Japanese, Tetun Dili, Sylheti Bangla, Pahari, and Saraiki language. The rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, of which continuation unfortunately still allows many to collect data for research, has prompted us to publish several other interesting studies. This compilation brings to the readers the following topics. This issue opens with Saki AMANO’s paper “Polysemy of ‘Common Language’ and the Modern Japanese Nation: The Universalization of a ‘Standard Language’ to correct ‘Dialects’?”. The author examine

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Sulun, Gaowa. "Japanese Translation Based on Bilingual Bases from Intercultural Communication." Mobile Information Systems 2022 (June 14, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3737199.

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Japanese, as a global language, can aid cultural exchanges and improve mutual understanding. When translating news, the translator should focus on the sentence from the standpoint of cross-cultural communication, so that the translation is more accurate and natural. Only the relationship between Japanese and Chinese can help translate more news reports, spread foreign information, and allow them to learn more about foreign events. This paper analyzes corpus using corpus means, fully exploiting the technical advantages of corpus in terms of words, vocabulary, text correspondence, semantic rhyme

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Li, Wenchao. "Lexical sophistication measures and writing proficiency: The case of Indonesian learners of Japanese." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Methods 9, no. 2 (2022): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijirm.14/vol9n23749.

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The present study tests two measures of lexical sophistication in writing proficiency (moving-average morphological richness and moving-average mean size of paradigm for testing the lexical diversity) and mean word length for testing writing form (plain, humble, honorification). The findings suggest that the three metrics work reliably. Regarding lexical diversity, moving-average of morphological richness (MAMR) and moving-average mean size of paradigm (MAMSP) of Indonesian Japanese learners-written texts are close to native Japanese-written data. Lexical complexity measured by word length by

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Li, Siyang. "The Production and Perception of Japanese Accent by Native Mandarin Speakers: A Study of Three-Mora Word Sequences Containing Devoiced Vowels." Communications in Humanities Research 60, no. 1 (2025): 27–35. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/2025.22237.

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A growing number of native Chinese speakers are enrolling in Japanese language programs, rendering the acquisition of Japanese pitch accent a significant topic in linguistics. Despite extensive research on the perception and production of devoiced vowels, studies on Chinese learners perception and production of Japanese pitch accent remain limited. This study examines the perception and production of three-mora Japanese word sequences with devoiced vowels by Chinese native learners of Japanese. The results reveal that learners made fewer perceptual than articulatory errors, who tend to pronoun

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Lee, Jungran, and Jeahyuk Oh. "Developmental Patterns of Verb and Adjective Inflection in Korean Language Learners." International Network for Korean Language and Culture 22, no. 1 (2025): 287–312. https://doi.org/10.15652/ink.2025.22.1.287.

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Journal of the International Network for Korean Language and Culture 22-1, 287-312. This study analyzes the morphological combination patterns of verb and adjective inflection to examine the developmental aspects of inflectional usage among Korean language learners. Rather than focusing on the frequency of occurrence of combination patterns, this study forces on the number of learners using each pattern to investigate universal developmental trends. To achieve this, a corpus of 1,686,802 written word tokens produced by Korean language learners was analyzed. The analysis revealed that, regardle

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Wahidati, Lufi, and Mery Kharismawati. "PENGARUH KONSUMSI ANIME DAN MANGA TERHADAP PEMBELAJARAN BUDAYA DAN BAHASA JEPANG." IZUMI 7, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/izumi.7.1.1-10.

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(Title: The Effect of Anime and Manga Consumption on Japanese Language and Culture Learning) This research was conducted to look at how far anime and manga effect Japanese language learning among the students of the Japanese Program in the Vocational College of Universitas Gadjah Mada. The data were collected via a question form. The question form was distributed to 2nd year and 3rd year Japanese students in May 2017. The questions in the questionnaire include the Japanese language learning motivation, the level of interest in Japanese anime and manga, frequency of consuming anime/manga, as we

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Sato, Tsuyoshi. "Longitudinal Measurement of the Vocabulary Size of Japanese Junior High School Students: Developing a Vocabulary Size Test for Beginner Learners." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 10, no. 1 (2021): 30–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v10.1.sato.

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As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning constitutes an essential part of second language acquisition research (Koda, 1989; Laufer, 1992; Meara, 1992). Assuming the case of Japanese, English education can provide a meaningful example. In addition, noting that precise measurements of the English vocabulary size of Japanese junior high school students have not been attained (Katagiri, 2000), the present study examines the growth of vocabulary size of Japanese junior high school students across their 3 years of English lear

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Ueno, Shotaro, and Osamu Takeuchi. "Which vocabulary learning strategies are important and useful for Japanese university students? A text-mining approach." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 12, no. 1 (2023): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.29140/vli.v12n1.1213.

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A growing body of vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) studies focuses on accumulating empirical evidence on the relationship between frequency of VLS use and vocabulary acquisition by using the frequency-based measures of VLSs. Our study by contrast, examined which VLSs are perceived as important and useful, and how they are employed by Japanese university students learning English as a foreign language (N = 40). Further, we investigated whether university students’ perceptions and use of strategies vary between higher- (n = 16) and lower-proficiency groups (n = 24). To this end, we used the

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Pinchbeck, Geoffrey. "Validating the Construct of Readability in EFL Contexts: A Proposal for Criteria." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 8, no. 1 (2019): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v08.1.pinchbeck.

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This article examines how English as a foreign language learners might be better matched to reading texts using automatic readability analysis. Specifically, I examine how the lexical decoding component of readability might be validated. In Japan, readability has been mostly determined by publishers or by professional reading organizations who only occasionally publish their lists of readability ratings for specific texts. Without transparent readability methods, candidate texts cannot be independently evaluated by practitioners. Moreover, the reliance on centralized organizations to curate fr

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Kemavuthanon, Kemachart, and Osamu Uchida. "Integrated Question-Answering System for Natural Disaster Domains Based on Social Media Messages Posted at the Time of Disaster." Information 11, no. 9 (2020): 456. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11090456.

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Natural disasters are events that humans cannot control, and Japan has suffered from many such disasters over its long history. Many of these have caused severe damage to human lives and property. These days, numerous Japanese people have gained considerable experience preparing for disasters and are now striving to predict the effects of disasters using social network services (SNSs) to exchange information in real time. Currently, Twitter is the most popular and powerful SNS tool used for disaster response in Japan because it allows users to exchange and disseminate information quickly. Howe

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Nakao, Kaori. "Loanwords for Language Learners: Help or Hindrance?" Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 5, no. 1 (2016): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v05.1.nakao.

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Loanwords are a growing component of the Japanese language. During the past six decades, the majority of new loanwords entering the Japanese language have come from the English language. For native Japanese speaking students, loanwords are a source of potential frustration and support, both within their L1 and L2 (English). Aims: To explore and further our understanding of students’ knowledge of high frequency loanwords. Sample: One hundred thirty undergraduate students of mixed major, studying in a compulsory course (Eigo/Eigokaiwa), at Kyushu Sangyo University, participated in this explorato

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Petrovčič, Mateja. "Foreword." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 12, no. 2 (2022): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.12.2.5-6.

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The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth. (Steven Pinker) …, however, from the viewpoint of a linguist, it is definitely worth having it all. The articles for the summer 2022 issue mainly involve topics either on second language learning and acquisition or historical language changes and the motives for them. They were carefully picked up from numerous proposals, and we are very grateful to every single contributor and also to the revie

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Rodgers, Michael P. H., and Stuart Webb. "Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television." ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171, no. 2 (2019): 191–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/itl.18034.rod.

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Abstract Previous research investigating L2 incidental vocabulary learning from video has primarily focused on short videos from genres that may be conducive to vocabulary learning. The research provides evidence that L2 incidental vocabulary learning can occur through video. However, it is uncertain whether viewing episodes of full-length television programs can contribute to incidental learning. This study investigated the effects of viewing 7+ hours of television on incidental vocabulary learning as well as the effects of the frequency and range. One-hundred and eighty-seven Japanese univer

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Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, and Tsuyoshi Ono. "‘Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 17, no. 4 (2007): 513–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.17.4.02cou.

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This cross-linguistic study focuses on ways in which conversationalists speak beyond a point of possible turn completion in conversation, specifically on turn extensions which are grammatically dependent, backward-looking and extend the prior action. It argues that further distinctions can be made in terms of whether the extension is prosodically integrated with the prior unit, its host, (Non-add-on) or not, and in terms of whether it repairs some part of the host (Replacement) or not. Added-on, non-repairing extensions are further distinguished in terms of whether they are grammatically fitte

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Yamazaki, Akiko, Keiichi Yamazaki, Keiko Ikeda, et al. "Interactions between a quiz robot and multiple participants." Interaction Studies 14, no. 3 (2013): 366–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.14.3.04yam.

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This paper reports on a quiz robot experiment in which we explore similarities and differences in human participant speech, gaze, and bodily conduct in responding to a robot’s speech, gaze, and bodily conduct across two languages. Our experiment involved three-person groups of Japanese and English-speaking participants who stood facing the robot and a projection screen that displayed pictures related to the robot’s questions. The robot was programmed so that its speech was coordinated with its gaze, body position, and gestures in relation to transition relevance places (TRPs), key words, and d

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Komarnytska, Tamara. "INCOMPLETE SENTENCES IN THE LANGUAGE OF JAPANESE MASS CULTURE AS A DEVIATION FROM THE LANGUAGE NORMS." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Oriental Languages and Literatures, no. 29 (2023): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-242x.2023.29.03.

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Background. The paper draws attention to the deviations from the syntactic norm in the sentences of the language of mass culture, in particular, the frequency of incomplete sentences that are not typical for literary language, on the example of the oral and written genres of modern mass culture of Japan. The main objective was to analyze, using quantitative and qualitative methods, the phenomena of ellipsis and nominative sentences, widely represented in the language of both written (fashion magazines, manga comics) and oral (lyrics of popular songs, the language of entertainment TV shows) gen

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McGuire, Michael, and Jenifer Larson-Hall. "The Contribution of High-frequency Multi-word Sequences to Speech Rate and Listening Perception Among EFL Learners." Vocabulary Learning and Instruction 10, no. 2 (2021): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7820/vli.v10.2.mcguire.larson-hall.

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This experiment tested gains in spoken fluency and ability to complete a dictation listening task accurately among 33 Japanese L1 English language users. Both a control group (N = 17) and an experimental group (N = 16) studied Anki vocabulary cards each week for 10 weeks and described three picture stories that contained the vocabulary words every week. Both groups studied 10 common bigrams (such as take advantage) each week while the experimental group additionally studied sets of 10 reduced trigrams (how do you) and did narrow listening homework each week. The results for spoken storytelling

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