New figures for a Web-accessible database of the 1,945 basic Japanese kanji, fourth edition

Tamaoka, Katsuo; Makioka, Shogo

doi:10.3758/bf03195601

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“…The total number of words contained in the BCCWJ is 104.6 million; which is less than a half of the corpus source used for the databases presented in this paper (299.6 million). The sub-corpus of the newspaper in BCCWJ covers the period of 2001-2005. The last database we would like to mention is the freely available kanji database by Tamaoka and Makioka (2004). The fourth edition (published in 2004) included several novel mathematical indexes such as kanji entropy, redundancy and symmetry and is downloadable as an Excel, Word or PDF file (https://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ktamaoka/en/ ).…”

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“…The printed version (M 8611 times, SD 18,065 times) is smaller in corpus size than CD-ROM version (M 12,514 times, SD 26,122 times). Tamaoka et al, (2002) produced the first webaccessible kanji database in 2002 containing the earlier version of the Jōyō kanji list which culminated in the fourth edition two years later (Tamaoka, & Makioka, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper presents the availability of two freely accessible databases: (1) a Jōyō kanji database (partially based on Tamaoka and Makioka 2004) and (2) a jukugo database, allowing for improved control and manipulation of important lexical factors when conducting psychological and linguistic research using Japanese kanji. We will now describe their properties and specific usage for psychological and linguistic research in more detail.…”

Section: The New Jōyō Kanji and Jukugo Databasesmentioning

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“…are simply a count of two-kanji compound words produced by a single kanji with no consideration of word frequency. Accumulative word frequency of all words together is considered to be more accurate in indicating the magnitude of kanji lexical productivity, compared to a simple count of each produced word (Tamaoka, & Makioka, 2004). Accumulative kanji lexical productivities on the left-side (Acc.…”

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confidence: 99%

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www.kanjidatabase.com: a new interactive online database for psychological and linguistic research on Japanese kanji and their compound words

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Most experimental research making use of the Japanese language has involved the 1945 officially standardized kanji (Japanese logographic characters) in the Jōyō kanji list (originally announced by the Japanese government in 1981). However, this list was extensively modified in 2010: five kanji were removed and 196 kanji were added; the latest revision of the list now has a total of 2136 kanji. Using an up-to-date corpus consisting of 11 years' worth of articles printed in the Mainichi Newspaper (2000-2010), we have constructed two novel databases that can be used in psychological research using the Japanese language: (1) a database containing a wide variety of properties on the latest 2136 Jōyō kanji, and (2) a novel database containing 27,950 two-kanji compound words (or jukugo). Based on these two databases, we have created an interactive website ( www.kanjidatabase.com ) to retrieve and store linguistic information to be used in psychological and linguistic experiments. The present paper reports the most important characteristics for the new databases, as well as their value for experimental psychological and linguistic research.

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Section: Existing Japanese Kanji Databasesmentioning

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www.kanjidatabase.com: a new interactive online database for psychological and linguistic research on Japanese kanji and their compound words

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“…In one contribution, Tamaoka and Makioka (2004a) provide frequency information for phonemes, morae, and syllables in a large Japanese corpus. In another, Tamaoka and Makioka (2004b) archive an update of their database of the characteristics of the basic Japanese kanji (Tamaoka, Kirsner, Yanase, Miyaoka, & Kawakami, 2002).…”

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A Web-Based Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data

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The Effect of Morphemic Homophony on the Processing of Japanese Two-kanji Compound Words

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Two experiments investigated the effect of kanji morphemic homophony on lexical decision and naming. Effects were examined from both the left-hand and right-hand positions of Japanese two-kanji compound words. The number of homophones affected the processing of compound words in the same way for both tasks. For left-hand kanji, fewer morphemic homophones led to faster lexical decision and whole-word naming. For right-hand kanji, the number of morphemic homophones did not affect either lexical decision or naming. This effect of homophonic density suggested that, when a kanji-compound word is to be processed, phonological information of its kanji constituents is automatically activated and reverberates back to generate a series of orthographic representations of kanji morphemic homophones, but not in a completely parallel fashion.

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New figures for a Web-accessible database of the 1,945 basic Japanese kanji, fourth edition

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

www.kanjidatabase.com: a new interactive online database for psychological and linguistic research on Japanese kanji and their compound words

www.kanjidatabase.com: a new interactive online database for psychological and linguistic research on Japanese kanji and their compound words

A Web-Based Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data

The Effect of Morphemic Homophony on the Processing of Japanese Two-kanji Compound Words

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