@book{oai:repository.ninjal.ac.jp:00001252,
 author = {国立国語研究所 and The National Language Research Institute},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {[Vocabulary and Chinese characters in ninety magazines of today Vol. 1-3 (Reports 21, 22, 25)]
After the two preceding surveys, we planned to extend the scope to the entire field of magazines. This series is a report on one such additional survey.

The following criteria were adopted in the selection of magazines: (1) The magazine should be for adults; (2) It should be on open sale, but not a house organ nor one for specialists; (3) It should have a large circulation compared to others of its kind. Such magazines were then classified into five strata (or simply “group”): I. Review, Literature and Art (Tyûôkôron, Gunzô, Geizyutu Sintyô, etc.); II. Popular Reading (Bungei Syunzyû, Sandê Mainiti, etc.); III. Business and Popular Science (Tôyô Keizai Sinpô, Kagaku Asahi, etc.); IV. Housekeeping (Syuhu no Tomo, etc.); V. Amusements, Hobbies and Sports (Ôru Yomimono, Eiga Fan, Igo, Yakyû-kai, etc.). The ninety selected magazines were published quarterly, monthly, semimonthly, every ten days or weekly. The “universe” of this survey was the complete text of the issues published in 1956 (total 227,000 pages). The number of running words was estimated at some 160 million β-units, including sixty million occurrences of zyosi and zyodôsi. We investigated some 440,000 words (not counting zyosi and zyodôsi), and some 100,000 zyosi and zyodôsi.

For this survey we devised a new sampling plan to guarantee the estimation precision for the small frequency of the order. This plan is a kind of stratified cluster sampling, where each cluster in the same stratum is formed by random combination of one-eighth-page-size parts of texts in such a way that the number of running words in any cluster is approximately equal to a certain constant. We believe that our method, including such a sampling plan, can make possible the manual completion of the statistical aspect of word count.

Report 25 contains the following sections:
1. Fundamentalities of words: The fundamentality function, f = a + b log p + c log sc, is fitted by the least square method, to twenty-five sets of a trial (whose components are the experts' evaluation of a set of quantitatively similar words, the averaged relative frequency, and the averaged degree of scattering). This chapter contains the table of the fundamentalities of the 1,200 most frequent words and semantic classification of the 700 most fundamental words.
2. Statistical structure of the vocabulary: Three topics are here discussed: (1) How many different words belong to each word-frequency grade, and what proportion of the total occurrences is covered by the accumulative number of such different words; (2) Distributional differences among parts of speech and among classes by word origin; (3) The distribution of inflectional forms of verbs and adjectives.
3. Usage of zyosi and zyodôsi: Frequency tables according to their meanings and to their combinational forms in a pause group are given. Differences in usage among synonymous zyosi and zyodôsi are discussed. Some quantitative considerations of zyosi and zyodôsi as syntactic markers are also given.
4. Word-construction: A table of 4,381 compound words and an analysis of them are given.
5. On a discrimination problem of whether words formally similar are recognized as the same or as different words: The discussion of this problem is proposed from two points of view, with a word list (974 headings) relating to the problem.

This volume also contains an index to subjects, an outline of the data, and a table of contents for all three volumes.X11

This project was carried out cooperatively by HAYASI Ôki, KENBÔ Hidetosi, SAIGA Hideo, MIZUTANI Sizuo, ISIWATA Tosio, MIYAZIMA Tatuo and MATUMOTO Akira., application/pdf},
 publisher = {秀英出版},
 title = {現代雑誌九十種の用語用字 第3分冊 : 分析},
 year = {1964},
 yomi = {コクリツ コクゴ ケンキュウジョ}
}