Word Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio
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| Title | Word Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio |
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| Abstract | This paper explores the variability of genres in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese using the modifier-verb ratio proposed by Kabashima and Jukaku (1965). Using bagplots to quantifying the relation between noun and modifier-verb ratios, as well as some summary statistics obtain from them, we attempt to classify genres according to Kabashima and Jugaku (1965). Our initial analysis confirms previous research results, while at the same time uncovering some contradictions in the ratios of the genre of magazines.-----V članku bom raziskoval variabilnost žanrov v referenčnemu besedilnemu korpusu Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese preko razmerja med dvema besednima vrstama – modifikatorjem in glagolom – prvič predstavljenega v delu Kabashime in Jugaku (1965) pod kratico MVR. Z uporabo statistične grafične metode bagplota raziščem relacijo med samostalniki in razmerjem med modifikatorji in glagoli, ter na podlagi te relacije klasificiram besedila v različnih žanrih po lestvici od opisnostni do povzetnostni. Analiza potrjuje večino prejšnih rezultatov, kot hkrati odkriva nekatera protislovja v relaciji med besednimi vrstami v žanru revij. |
| Publisher | Faculty of Arts |
| Date | 2011-10-20 |
| Source | Acta Linguistica Asiatica Vol 1, No 2 (2011) |
| Rights | Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |