Language Usage and Vocabulary Acquisition: Empirical Foundations for Cognitive Models of the Acquisition of the Basic German Vocabulary

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02734
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Okamura Saburo 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 (30009724)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 原口 厚 早稲田大学, 商学学術院, 教授 (90247239)
• Research Collaborator: SCHARLOTH Joachim 早稻田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 ; LANGE Willi 前早稻田大学, 商学学術院, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: Mental lexicon「脳内辞書 」 / ドイツ語基本語彙 / 認知的習得モデル / データ駆動型 / 基本語彙の中に存在する種々のネットワーク / ドイツ語基本語彙学習ポータル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of our research is to represent the basic German vocabulary for learners in a way, that corresponds with the structure of the mental lexicon. In order to do so, we modeled findings of data-driven analyses of large corpora as networks of co-occuring, similar sounding, topically coherent, and similarly emotionally charged lexemes. As networks are considered the dominant structure of the mental lexicon, we modeled the vocabulary as a hypertext with complex reference structure. The basic German vocabulary has already been published online (http://japanisch.basic-german.com/) as the first basic German vocabulary published under a creative commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free Research Field

人文学