2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Corpus of Kansai Vernacular Japanese
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17K02761
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Japanese / dialect / corpus |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The two primary objectives of this research project were to create a corpus of Kansai vernacular Japanese, and to make that corpus available on the internet. In total, 138 sociolinguistic interviews were conducted. Each interview was transcribed, and checked for errors. The transcriptions were parsed and tagged with part of speech data using Mecab. The tagged data was checked by students hired for this job, and mistakes were corrected. I estimate the final accuracy rate is about 98%.
The final data, along with supporting documents such as a description of the transcription methods, are available on a google website. The data is shared under a creative commons license. Users may be downloaded and used free of charge. However, users are prohibited from using the data for profit.
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| Free Research Field |
linguistics
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The corpus of Kansai Vernacular Japanese includes speakers ranging in age from 15 years old to 80 years old. This large age range allows researchers to explore how language is used differently by each generation. Such an approach is useful for doing research language change and standardization.
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