An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.18 Tables of Vocabulary Obtained
from Japanese Children by Association Method
(Report 69, 1981. 324 pages)
This book reports on the results of a survey of word
associations of school children which was conducted with the
goal of learning more about the relation between language
acquisition and conceptual development. It contains the
following two vocabulary association tables.
1. Table of Vocabulary Association by Category- This table was
obtained by a method whereby we had children associate as many
vocabulary as possible with a given category. The following
14 categories were studied: animals, vehicles, clothing,
tools, plants, furniture, footwear, flowers, fruits,
vegetables, fish, birds, musical instruments, and insects.
We surveyed children both in Tokyo and Kagosima (Kosiki
Island), including perceptually handicapped children.
2. Table of Vocabulary Association with Cap Syllables- This table
was obtained by having children associate as many words
as possible with a word-initial syllable. We
investigated all of the 67 syllables in the Japanese language.
In addition, we included vocabulary tables from related
research by other researchers as comparative data for the
reader's reference.
This survey was directed by HAYASI Oki, MURAISI Syo~zo~,
IWATA Zyun'iti, SIMAMURA Naomi, SAITO Hidenori, MURAKI
Sinziro~, SATAKE Hideo, TAKIZAWA Takehisa, and SATO
Yasumasa. The report was written by MURAISI Syo~zo~ and
IWATA Zyun'iti.
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