The combinability of 2965 kanji characters of Japanese Industrial Standard on formation of two-kanji compound words

Japanese Journal of Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-275

  Ogawa, Taeko ^a   Saito, Hirofumi ^a   Yanase, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combinability; Corpus; Number of companions of kanji; Number of pronunciations; Two kanji compound word

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; STANDARD;

INDUSTRY; JAPAN; LANGUAGE;

EID: 32944479111     PISSN: 00215236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.76.269     Document Type: Article

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