An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.3.1 Research on Newspaper Vocabulary
(Source 2, 1952. 102 pages)
This is a tentative survey for setting up the methodology of
word count by total coverage of a "universe" consisting of the
complete text of the issues of June, 1949 of the Asahi
newspaper. Our main matters of concern were how many
different words appeared and how many times each word
occurred in the newspaper during a certain month. About
15,000 different words were found, in a total of 237,000
occurrences, not counting zyosi and zyodosi. Source 2 also
gives a word list of some 3,300 entries which occurred ten times
or more in our "universe." In addition, the frequency
distributions of words by days and by article, and the
proportions of the word classes, were appended.
This survey was conducted by HAYASI Oki and SAIGA Hideo.
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