Possibility of 'Decision Tree' Analysis on Collocation Frequencies: In the Case of Conjunctive Particles kara, node and noni Co-occurring with Adverbs at the Middle and End of Sentences

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  • 「決定木」分析によるコーパス研究の可能性：副詞と共起する接続助詞「から」「ので」「のに」の文中・文末表現を例に
  • ケッテイギ ブンセキ ニ ヨル コーパス ケンキュウ ノ カノウセイ フクシ ト キョウキスル セツゾク ジョシ カラ ノデ ノニ ノ ブンチュウ ブンマツ ヒョウゲン オ レイ ニ

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Using ‘decision tree’ drawn by a statistical algorism CHAID in SPSS AnswerTree 3.0J, the present study investigated the collocation frequencies of three conjunctive particles (kara, node and noni) appearing in the middle or at the end of sentences, with seven selected adverbs (nanishiro, nanise, sekkaku, gen'ni, doose, jissai, and hontooni). Collocation frequencies were taken from the corpus of the Shinchoo Bunko Collection of 100 Novels. Analysis results depicted in the decision tree predict two different particle positions (middle and end) of three conjunctive particles appearing with the seven adverbs.Five noteworthy collocation tendencies were observed.First, the conjunctive particles node and kara showed distinctive differences in the middle and ending positions when appearing with the adverbs: node was seldom seen at the end of sentences (5 times, or 4.59%), while kara was often seen at the end (220 times, or 31.56%).Second, the combination of the adverb nanishiro and the conjunctive particle kara occurred most frequently at the end of sentences (140 out of 324 times, or 43.21%). Third, although kara occasionally appeared with the adverb sekkaku, this combination was seldom observed at the end of sentences (6 out of 67 times, or 8.96%). Fourth, the conjunctive particle kara showed a similar pattern of collocation frequencies in the middle and at the end of sentences when combined with the five adverbs nanise, gen'ni, doose, jissai and hontooni. Fifth, the conjunctive particle noni appeared in the middle and at the end of sentences (78.82% in the middle and 21.18% at the end), similar to the overall percentages of the conjunctive particles (72.73% in the middle and 27.27% at the end).As such, in structurally depicting the collocation frequencies of conjunctive particles and adverbs, ‘decision tree’ analysis has considerable potential as a statistical approach in future collocation studies.

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