| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MAKIOKA Shogo Osaka Women's University, Department of Human and Social Studies, Associate Professor, 人文社会学部, 助教授 (60264785)
MATSUSHITA Tatsuhiko Obirin University, International Education Center, Associate Professor, 国際教育センター, 助教授 (00255259)
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| Research Abstract |
In Beijing, China, the present research conducted a test of lexical productivity based on kanji suffix units for native Chinese speakers learning Japanese. They were classified into three groups by their Japanese language ability. The results of analysis indicated that learner's lexical productivity highly predicted an overall Japanese language ability. Even with lexical productivity of a few suffixes, learner's lexical productivity seems to be an important element of Japanese language ability. In addition, the research project also constructed a database of the 1,945 basic Japanese kanji consisting of various features including kanji visual complexity, kanji lexical productivity, kanji entropy and redundancy, kanji symmetry, kanji semantic diversity etc. This database is downloadable from a homepage of Tamaoka (http : //home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/ktamaoka/).
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