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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