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| “Honorifics in Japanese Schools”: Results from Questionnaires Data from the questionnaire survey on the use and awareness of the honorifics among junior high school and high school students carried out from 1989 to 1990 by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. In all, 2,456 junior high school students from Tokyo and 339 from Yamagata, 2,222 high school students from Tokyo and 1,004 from Osaka took part in the survey. Show More |
| A Cineradiograph of Japanese Pronunciation The Cineradiograph of articulatory movement of Japanese filmed in 1965 and 1967. Show More |
| A Dictionary of Tone-accent on Words in the Tokyo Dialect Provides data digitalized from "A Dictionary of Tone-accent on Words in the Tokyo Dialect" (supervised by Takeshi Shibata and compiled by Yoshio Mase and Ryoichi Sato in 1985). Show More |
| A National Attitudinal Survey on Effective Administrative Communication Response data from an attitude survey (conducted in 2003) that asked the heads and employees of municipal governments about their efforts to communicate with residents using easy-to-understand terms and to communicate with them smoothly. Show More |
| A National Attitudinal Survey on Loanwords in Japanese Response data from an attitude survey (conducted in 2003 and 2004) on loanwords and abbreviations, and communication scenes that use them. Show More |
| A National Attitudinal Survey on the Japanese Proficiency Response data from an attitude survey (conducted in 2006) that looked into Japanese people's attitudes towards "Japanese proficiency." Show More |
| A National Survey on the Use of Loanwords in Japanese Statistical data from a survey conducted from 2002 through 2004 on the penetration levels (recognition, understanding, and frequency of use) of 405 loanwords. Show More |
| A Selected Bibliography of the Studies on Japanese Language Overseas A bibliography of studies on Japanese language published across the world, excluding Japan, collected under an international academic research project financed through the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research entitled "Collection and Analysis of Bibliographic Information on Japanese Language Research in the Age of Internationalization" (1994-1995). Show More |
| A Survey on Language Behavior in Response to Video-instruction Response data from an attitude survey on linguistic behavior observations and predictions, conducted on Japanese people living in Brazil, France, South Korea, the US and Vietnam, and Brazilian, French, South Korean, American and Vietnamese residents in Japan. (Scene 6 "Responding to a Request," one of the six scenes. Conducted from 1996 to 1998.) Show More |
| A Survey on the Medical Communications Provides statistical data from a survey conducted to select words for a proposal that makes it easy to understand "medical communications," identify problems, and explore improvement methods. (Doctors were asked to write down problematic words, healthcare professionals were surveyed about their attitudes to terms, non-healthcare professionals were surveyed about their levels of understanding, and so on.) Show More |
| Academic Repository of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics “Academic Repository of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)” collects and stores outcomes of academic and educational activities at NINJAL, as well as academic materials held by NINJAL in an electronic format, which is accessible on the Internet. Show More |
| Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) ‘The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’ (BCCWJ) is a corpus created for the purpose of attempting to grasp the diversity of contemporary written Japanese. The data is comprised of 104.3 million words, covering genres such as general books and magazines, newspapers, business reports, blogs, internet forums, textbooks, and legal documents, among others. Morphological information and document structure were annotated to randomly taken samples. BCCWJ is available to the public online as well as a DVD set. Show More |
| Basic Research on Corpus Annotation Web page of the project `Basic Resaearch on Corpus Annotation' (2009-2015) Show More |
| Basic Research on Corpus Annotation - Extension, Integration, and Machine-aided Approaches Web page of the project `Basic Research on Corpus Annotation - Extension, Integration, and Machine-aided Approaches' (2016-2021) Show More |
| Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research This is a database of articles dealing with the Japanese language and Japanese language education that have appeared in academic journals and collections of papers and other publications. It contains searchable articles and books on these topics published in 1950 onwards. Show More |
| Bibliography for Studies of the Language in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area of Japan A bibliography of studies of the language in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Documents in related fields, such as those concerning place names and topography, are also included. Show More |
| Bunrui Goihyo (Word List by Semantic Principles, Revised and Enlarged Edition) Bunrui Goihyo is a Japanese thesaurus. This database version was built by incorporating the contents of the Bunrui Goihyo book edition (revised and enlarged edition). It was created in the CSV file format to enable uploading into data organization software. The total number of records is 101,070. Show More |
| Catalogue of Nikkei Materials in North America This catalogue includes Nikkei or Japanese American materials (audio/audiovisual, photos, etc.) stored at institutions in Japan, Hawaii, and North America. Show More |
| Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room Collection A catalogue of materials (e.g., index cards, audio recordings, etc.) collected or created in the various research projects by NINJAL. Show More |
| Chunagon Chunagon is a web concordancer that enables a three-way search of the corpora developed by NINJAL. In Chunagon, short unit word, long unit word, and string are available. Using a combination of morphological information, it is possible to make an advanced search of the corpus. Show More |
| Collection of the Research Library for Study of the Japanese Language History The Research Library owns valuable archives for research into Japanese language history and development of the historical corpus, digital images of the archives can be browsed online. Show More |
| Compound Verb Lexicon Comprising over 2,700 verb-verb compound verbs of contemporary Japanese, this online dictionary provides useful information on their linguistic features for both researchers and learners of Japanese. In addition to Japanese representations, it offers English, Chinese, and Korean translations for the semantic definitions and example sentences. The original Excel data downloadable upon agreement. Show More |
| Comprehensive Indexical Database of the NLRI's Studies on Sociolinguistics A database of the indexes to 12 sociolinguistic reports that was published by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics with indexes until 1998 when it was named the National Language Research Institute (NLRI). (A total of approximately 10,000 entries) Show More |
| Contrastive Vocabulary Table of Japanese, German, French and Spanish Electric data of "A Contrastive Study of the Fundamental Vocabulary of Japanese, German, French and Spanish", published in 1986. Show More |
| Conversational Strategy Data for Japanese Language Learners Provides transcripts of conversations between learners of Japanese who are native speakers of English or have very good English skills and native speakers of Japanese (recorded from 1981 to 1984). Show More |
| Corpora of Modern Japanese This is corpus developed to research the Japanese language of the Meiji and Taisho eras. The ‘Taiyo corpus’, ‘Modern women’s magazines corpus’, ‘Meiroku Zasshi corpus’, and ‘Kokumin-no-Tomo corpus’ are available. Show More |
| Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation (CEJC) The Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation contains 200 hours of everyday conversations in a balanced manner, providing video and audio data, transcripts, and several kinds of annotations. This is available in two ways: 1) a web-based search system accessible to two-way POS data, and 2) the entire corpus including video/audio data and all annotations. Show More |
| Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ) This corpus collects materials to research the history of the Japanese language. The development of the corpus is ongoing, with a view to producing a diachronic corpus which covers a period from the ancient times to the modern times. What is already built is available at the moment. Show More |
| Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (C-JAS) NINJAL has published the interview oral data of six JSL learners (three Chinese and three Korean), who were studying at a Japanese language school for college preparatory education, a vocational school, a junior college and universities in Japan. Their three years of learning was divided into eight terms, 3-4 months each, in the longitudinal research. The amount of data recorded is about 46.5 hours and the total number of words is about 570,000. Show More |
| Corpus of Japanese Dialects (COJADS) This is the first courpus of Japanese dialects. It is based on the discourses collected by Agency of Cultural Affair durin 1977-1985. You can search in dialects and Standard Japanese but currently short unit search is only available for Standard Japanese. Show More |
| Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ) The “Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese” (or CSJ) is a database containing a large collection of Japanese spoken language data and information for use in linguistic research; jointly developed by NINJAL, NICT and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the CSJ is world-class in both the quantity and quality of the available data (7.5 million words).The corpus has been used for a wide variety of research purposes such as spoken language processing, natural language processing, phonetics, psychology, sociology, Japanese education, and dictionary compilation. Show More |
| Data and Program Release [hogen kenkyu no heya] Complete data from the Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (GAJ), PDF files of GAJ, tools and contents for mapping linguistic (dialectal) maps, results of preliminary study for GAJ, and database of linguistic (dialectal) atlases of Japanese dialects are published. Show More |
| Data from a national survey of language usage and language awareness Response data from a national survey (conducted in 2009 on 925 males and females aged 20-79 in 73 locations) on language usage and language awareness. Show More |
| Database of endangered languages/dialects in Japan This database releases recorded voices of endangered languages/dialects in Japan. It consists of word pronunciations and natural conversations of the endangered languages/dialects, such as Amami, Okinawa, and Hachijo. It also includes transcribed texts and their translation into Standard Japanese. Show More |
| Database of Hokkaido Survey This is a database of the standardization of Hokkaido Dialect (Furano City and Sapporo City) based on longitudinal surveys conducted in 1958-60, 1986-87. Show More |
| Database of Linguistic Atlases and Maps of Japan A database of linguistic and dialectological atlases for Japanese published in Japan. It includes a bibliography of atlases (for each map, entries for author, title, year of publication, period and area of survey), the contents of maps included in the atlases (including titles and keywords for searching) and image files of maps (geotagged to the extent possible). Show More |
| Database of Tsuruoka Survey This is a database of the standardization of Tsuruoka Dialect based on longitudinal surveys conducted in 1950, 1971, 1991, 2011. Show More |
| Databases of Japanese Examples Extracted from Web Corpora (Adjectives) These databases provide examples of Japanese adjectives. Examples in the databases are extracted from special purpose Web corpora for each entry word that were constructed to collect adequate examples for every entry word, preventing bias of collected examples. Show More |
| Databases of Japanese Examples Extracted from Web Corpora (Japanese compound verbs) These databases provide examples of Japanese compound verbs. Examples in the databases are extracted from special purpose Web corpora for each entry word that were constructed to collect adequate examples for every entry word, preventing bias of collected examples. Show More |
| Databases of Japanese Examples Extracted from Web Corpora (Sahen verbs) These databases provide examples of Japanese nominal verbs. Examples in the databases are extracted from special purpose Web corpora for each entry word that were constructed to collect adequate examples for every entry word, preventing bias of collected examples. Show More |
| Dataset of Educational Video Material Series for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language This site presents movies (application required), scenario collection, and vocabulary chart digitized from the Educational Film Series for the Japanese Language (Basic Level) and the Educational Video Materials for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (Intermediate Level, Primary Level). Show More |
| Datasets of “Dialect Recordings Series” Machine readable text files and audio files of “Dialect Recordings Series” published in 1978-1987. Show More |
| Datasets of “Texts of Tape-Recorded Conversations in Japanese Dialects” Machine readable text files and audio files of “Texts of Tape-Recorded Conversations in Japanese Dialects” published in 1978-1987. Show More |
| Dictionary of Basic Japanese Collocation (Indonesian) The Dictionary of Basic Japanese Collocation (Indonesian) contains about 4,000 basic Japanese words. It is a dictionary for native Indonesian learners of Japanese who have completed the elementary level. Show More |
| Draft Linguistic Map Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room A catalogue of drafts of the Linguistic Atlas of Japan, Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects, and other maps created for research purposes; referential maps; and so on. Show More |
| Electric Data of Association Word Lists of Children Electric data of Yoji Jido no Rensou Goihyo (Association Word Lists of Children), published 1981. Show More |
| Electric Data of Research on Basic Vocabulary for Learners of Japanese Electric data of Nihongo-kyouiku no tame no Kihon-goi Chosa (Research on basic vocabulary for learners of Japanese.), published 1984. Show More |
| Examples for Training Voice Articulations and Word Utterances The Examples for Training Voice Articulations and Word Utterances provides audio recordings of example sentences for Japanese pronunciation training for Korean, Thai, Chinese, Malaysian, and Indonesian learners of Japanese. Show More |
| Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects (FPJD) and New Linguistic Atlas of Japan (NLJ) This database release the dialectological distribution data of 554 places researched by Field Research Project to Analyze the Formation Process of Japanese Dialects between 2010 and 2015. Show More |
| Film Script Catalogue of NINJAL Research Materials Room A catalogue of the film scripts collected and stored by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics for spoken language research. Show More |
