Investigation of the Similarity between Newspaper Corpus and Native Speakers’ Production in Collocation Patterns of Sound-symbolic Words and Verbs

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  • 音象徴語と動詞の共起パターンに関する 新聞コーパスの共起頻度と母語話者の産出との類似性の検討
  • オト ショウチョウゴ ト ドウシ ノ キョウキパターン ニ カンスル シンブン コーパス ノ キョウキヒンド ト ボゴワシャ ノ サンシュツ ト ノ ルイジセイ ノ ケントウ

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Newspapers articles are written by reporters for the general public, so provide accurate information using simple standard expressions. However, it is not clear whether written texts in newspapers reflect typical language production by native speakers. It is assumed that mature native Japanese speakers produce various sound-symbolic words—such as onomatopoeia and mimesis, which are cultivated through childhood experience—with various related verbs. The present study investigated the similarities of collocation patterns for 28 different sound-symbolic words co-occurring with verbs, by comparing nine years of Asahi Newspaper articles (1991-99) with verbal production by 36 native Japanese speakers within 30 seconds. No significant differences were found in either the variation criterion of entropy or the regularity criterion of redundancy for collocational patters between newspaper corpus and native speakers’ production. The result indicated a great similarity between newspaper corpus and native speakers. Exceptional words were only found in 4 out of 28 sound-symbolic words from the descriptive perspective.

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  • Mathematical Linguistics

    Mathematical Linguistics 31 (1), 20-35, 2017-06-20

    The Mathematical Linguistic Society of Japan

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