Time and Space in Contemporary Japanese through Comparative Investigation of Japanese and English Mental Lexicon Structures and Strategies of Temporal and Spatial Description

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All the necessary data were collected from the Balanced Corpus of Written Japanese and the Japanese word-association data set reached more than 650000 responses. Preliminary results of the mental lexicon investigations were reported and discussed at the Digital Humanities 2022 and the Linguistic Society of New Zealand annual conferences. The general progress of the mental lexicon part of the project from the Japanese studies point of view will be reported at the European Association for Japanese Studies, and spatial description in Japanese from the cognitive linguistics standpoint will be discussed in the paper for the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. For the spontaneous speech experiment, the development of the software was finished so that it is ready for the data collection.