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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