Word Class Ratios and Genres in Written Japanese: Revisiting the Modifier Verb Ratio

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 fr...

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Main Author: Bor HODOŠČEK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2011-10-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/28