Institute-based Project
A New Integration of Japanese Language Studies Based on Diverse Language Resources
The project "A New Integration of Japanese Language Studies Based on Diverse Language Resources" includes the collaborative research projects hosted by NINJAL. NINJAL is conducting this project to consolidate Japanese language studies beyond the barrier between ramified research areas and to increase the presence of the Japanese language and its studies in the world.
Purpose
This project aims to promote the globalization of Japanese language studies, by creative reconstruction of diverse language resources available electronically from massive language materials, and providing it to universities and communities of scholars in Japan and worldwide. Simultaneously, this project also includes the utilization of a new model of comprehensive Japanese language studies, through integrated research based on diverse language resources beyond the framework of established research areas.
NINJAL disseminates the research results of this project throughout Japan and worldwide, in the form of (international) publications, corpora, databases, events, and so on. Through this project, NINJAL also aims to support universities in terms of Japanese linguistic education by offering an educational program that is the product of a new model of comprehensive Japanese language studies, and to sophisticate the basis of joint usage by the development of a new online system that enables collective search of multiple language resources. In addition, this project includes research on endangered languages/dialects that intends to contribute to the activation of local communities.
Organization
This project comprises six large scale sub-projects and many projects led by outside researchers. The core research of NINJAL is promoted by close cooperation between each project.
This project is one of the institute-based projects of the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), consisting of six research institutes including NINJAL. In addition, this project aims to pioneer a new research field, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary collaborative projects and network-based projects hosted by NIHU.
Core Research Projects
- Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar (April 2016 - March 2022)
- Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese (April 2016 - March 2022)
- Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan (April 2016 - March 2022)
- The Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese (April 2016 - March 2022)
- A Multifaceted Study of Spoken Language Using a Large-scale Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation (April 2016 - March 2022)
- Multiple Approaches to Analyzing the Communication of Japanese Language Learners (April 2016 - March 2022)
Topic-specific Projects
- Generative Perspectives on the Syntax and Acquisition of Japanese (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Stylistic Variation in Minutes of the Assemblies (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Research on Education in Classical Literature Using the Corpus of Historical Japanese (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Investigation and Typification of Emergent Participation Framework in Conversation (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Learning in Context: Developing Situation-Based Writing Materials (October 2016 - September 2019)
New Frontier Projects
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Linguistic Variation in Pragmatic Inference (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Development of All-Words WSD Systems and Construction of a Correspondence Table between WLSP (Word List by Semantic Principles) and IJD (Iwanami Japanese Dictionary) by These Systems (October 2016 - March 2018)
- Comprehension of Indirect Utterances in Japanese conversation: Comparison among Japanese Children, Foreign Learners of Japanese and Artificial Intelligence (October 2016 - September 2019)
- Statistic and Statistical Mechanics Approach to Semantic Drift of Words in Modern and Contemporary Languages (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Lowering Linguistic Barriers in Japanese to Achieve a Sustainable Multicultural Society in Japan (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Investigation of Listening Comprehension Difficulties in Children with Developmental Disorders (April 2019 - March 2022)
Joint Usage Projects
- Annotating Semantic Role Labels and Frames of NPCMJ (April 2019 - March 2020)
- Empirical Study of the Validity of a Cohort Analysis of Presuming Individual Sound Change (April 2019 - March 2022)
- An Evaluation of Digitized Glossed Manuscripts Through a Precise Investigation of Source Material (April 2019 - March 2022)
- The Social Impact of the Influx of English Words in Language Contact in Japan: The Perspective of Welfare Linguistics (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Diachronic Evaluation of School Children's Writing Skill by Vocabulary and Character Type Rate (April 2019 - March 2020)
- Analysis of the Survey Questionnaire and Visit Record from the Okazaki Survey on Honorifics I-III (April 2019 - March 2020)
- Computational Psycholinguistics of Language Processing with Large Corpora (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Geographical and Cross-generational Studies Regarding the Tohoku Dialects (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Verification and Application of Paraphrase Proposal for the Improvement of Language Problems Caused by Difficult Terms (April 2019 - March 2022)
- Empirical Studies of Pause and Speech Rate in Prosodic Features of Japanese Speech (April 2019 - March 2020)
- Research on the Initial Project of the National Language Research Institute (April 2019 - March 2021)
- Reutilizing Hokkaido Real-time Survey Data to Unravel the Processes of Language Change (April 2019 - March 2022)
- The Use of Data from the Urgent Pan-Dialectal Data Collection Survey in Gratitude Expression Research (April 2020 - March 2022)
- Discourse Analysis in Oita Dialects —Changes over the Last 60 Years (April 2020 - March 2022)
- A Study of Prominence in Japanese Spontaneous Speech (April 2020 - March 2022)
- The Past and Present of World Geolinguistics and Linguistic Maps as Seen from the NINJAL Library (April 2020 - March 2022)
- The Effects of Speech Production Improvement on Speech Perception in Second Language Learning (April 2020 - March 2022)
- History of Research at the National Language Institute: Based on an Analysis of Research Notes from the 1940s to the 1950s (April 2021 - )
- Research on the Change of Proper Usage of Dialect Sounds and Standard Language Sounds According to Speaking Situations (April 2021 - )
- Building Word Sense Embeddings by Using Distributed Representations and Contextual Embeddings (April 2021 - )
- An Availability Evaluation of a Structured Data for the Kunten Material (April 2021 - )
- A Study on the Use of Historical Documents of Social Surveys on Language (April 2021 - )
Joint Usage Projects (NINJAL research resources)
- Effects of Multiple Acoustic Cues to Japanese Voicing Contrast (September 2021 - August 2022)
- Organizing and Digitizing “Bound Form (‘Zyosi’ and ‘Zyodosi’) in Modern Japanese: Uses and Examples” (October 2021 - March 2022)
- Development and Research of UniDic Dictionary for Waka Poems and Imayo Songs (November 2021 - October 2022)
- Creation and Publication of "Data for Word Stylistic Degree" (November 2021 - March 2022)
- The Process of Contextualizing European Language-based Pre-Modern Japanese Expressions in Modern Japanese: With Special Attention to a Japanese Visual Perception Verb "/miru/" with the Inanimate Subject (February 2022 - )
Joint Usage Projects (NINJAL language resources)
- Describing Japanese from an Indexicality-based Perspective (January 2022 - )
- A Basic Study for Clarifying Online Information Processing by Native Speakers of Japanese Focusing on Syntactic Dependencies (January 2022 - )
- A Basic Study for Creating a Dictionary for Learners of Japanese Mainly Composed of Information of Syntactic Information and Noun Collocation Using BCCWJ (January 2022 - )
