Integrated Development of Japanese linguistics by WWW searching

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370551
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: OGINO Tsunao 日本大学, 文理学部, 教授 (00111443)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: WWW / 方言語形 / ゆれ / 新語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I investigated the usage of Japanese language by WWW search engines and clarified some aspects of Japanese usage. First, in 2014, I investigated distribution patterns of dialectal wordforms and I could grasped clearly what kind of words had spread to what kind of areas. Second, in 2015, I investigated fluctuations of notations of Japanese words and I indicated some characteristics of kanji, hiragana, and katakana notations in the case of the words which can be written in three characters. Third, in 2016, I picked up the problem of spreading patterns of neologisms using Twitter's transmission dates and I revealed the speed and tendency of newly created wordforms.

Free Research Field

日本語学