Factors affecting the semantic inferences of polysemic words among Japanese Language Learners

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02656
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: KOMORI KAZUKO 明治大学, 国際日本学部, 専任准教授 (60463890)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 三國 純子 文化学園大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (00301705) ; 早川 杏子 関西学院大学, 付置研究所, 講師 (80723543) ; 李 在鎬 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(日本語教育研究科), 教授 (20450695) ; 玉岡 賀津雄 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (70227263)
• Research Collaborator: HUANG CONGCONG 明治大学, 大学院国際日本学研究科 ; TAKAHASHI Yuta 明治大学, 大学院国際日本学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 漢語 / 日中同形語 / 意味推測 / 日中対照 / データベース / 中国語話者 / 語彙習得

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed to investigate factors affecting the acquisition of Sino-Japanese kanji compound words (Wasei-kango) among Japanese language learners, and to construct a new database of Japanese-Chinese contrastive kanji compound words. This is necessary for research into Japanese language acquisition. The new database of 2,078 Japanese kanji compound words was published in March 2017. This database includes both Japanese and Chinese vocabulary properties, such as script, reading, degree of vocabulary difficulty, frequency, orthographical and phonological difference between Japanese and Chinese, meanings and so on. With regard to the acquisition of Wasei-kango, research was conducted with two groups of Chinese native speakers: one group with no experience of learning Japanese and the other with an advanced level of Japanese. The results showed that the difficulty of semantic inferences correlates to the difficulty of acquisition.

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