2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research and elaboration of data base on geograpshical variation of Spanish lexicon
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16520231
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
UEDA Hiroto The University of Tokyo, The Univeisity of TokyoFaculty of Arts and Sciencies, Professor (20114796)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKAGAKI Toshihiro Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 外国語学部, Professor (00140070)
TINOCO Antonio Ruiz Sophia University, 外国語学部, Professor (80296889)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | Spanish / lexicon / variation / data base |
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| Research Abstract |
We have published results of successive research mainly based on documents and surveys by mail. We have collected materials from previous studies and research reports published in recent years. We have also published the findings of the research on Spanish language of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
The questions of the surveys are similar to those of dialectological studies and we ask for forms corresponding to the linguistic meanings in question, so we do not include contents where special handling is needed to protect human rights and interests. However, in order to maintain maximum security, when publishing, the names of the surveyed people are anonymous. From these data, by using multivariate analyses, quantitative studies to determine dialect zoning were conducted, which had been considered difficult in the case of lexical materials.
The materials obtained by the surveys have been ordered in two-dimensional matrix consisting of cities and linguistic forms and have been subjected to multivariate analyses. Lexical variations represented in the two-dimensional arrays are quantifiable but on the other hand, they are abstract data that do not reflect the linguistic reality. It is necessary to place them in real contexts and situations. For studies of the context, it is necessary to resort to means of corpus linguistics and for the situation to develop vocabularies accompanied by photos and videos. We have developed tools for the study of linguistic corpus, development of vocabulary, and statistical analysis.
We have continued studies in collaboration with over 70 participants, repeating intensive field works and extensive postal surveys. We have communicated the results at annual conferences and symposia and we have published either in the form of articles or dictionaries.
For the future we will develop and implement a method of automatic web-based surveys, instead of the previous surveys by mail.
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Research Products
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[Book] 『クラウン和西辞典』2004
Author(s)
上田 博人・アントニオ・ルイズ・ティノコ
Total Pages
1600
Publisher
三省堂
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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