17.2947, Qs: Frequent Disyllabic Words in Spoken Japanese

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Subject: 17.2947, Qs: Frequent Disyllabic Words in Spoken Japanese

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Date: 04-Oct-2006
From: Aniruddh Patel < apatel at nsi.edu >
Subject: Frequent Disyllabic Words in Spoken Japanese 

	
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:49:11
From: Aniruddh Patel < apatel at nsi.edu >
Subject: Frequent Disyllabic Words in Spoken Japanese 
 


Dear Linguist List,

We are doing cross-cultural research on rhythm in speech and music.  As
part of this work, we are trying to obtain a list of the most frequent
disyllabic words from corpora of spontaneous Japanese and American English
speech.  For English, we have been able to get a list of the 50 most common
disyllabic words from the Switchboard corpus (along with their
frequencies). 

However, we have not been able to find a comparable corpus
of spontaneous Japanese speech from which we can extract the 50 most common
disyllabic Japanese words.  

If anyone can point us to a resource that we could use, we would be most
grateful.

Thanks,
Ani Patel 

The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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