形容詞「重い」の意味類推についての研究

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This study analyzed the results of judgment tests administered to 225 high school students by Aotani (2003) with two statistical methods, cluster analysis and factor analysis. By the cluster analysis, 30 Japanese phrases that contained 'omoi' (heavy) were classified into several clusters based on the patterns of the subjects' analogical inference. By factor analysis, it was possible to abstract several common factors that reflect subjects' recognition of the senses of 'omoi'. Six common factors, which are seriousness, weightiness, mental languidness, metaphor, burden, and physical languidness, were abstracted from the results of high school students, while six slightly different factors, which are languidness, weightiness, severeness, metaphor, seriousness, and substantiality, were abstracted from the results of university students. The results have some implications for how people classify the word senses and methodological implications for vocabulary acquisition.
2004-03-31