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Kim, Sun-Hoi. (2022). The distributional characteristics in the frequency of Korean and English number words. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 30(4), 19-40. The goal of this paper is to identify the distributional characteristics in the frequency of Korean and English number words through quantitatively analyzing their frequency data. The frequency distributions of number words were visualized and the correlation between the magnitude of numbers and the frequency of number words were measured through Spearmans and Kendalls correlation coefficients because the frequency distributions of number words did not follow the normal distribution. This paper shows that the main cross-linguistic characteristics in the frequency of number words, which were reported in Dehaene & Mehler (1992) and Jansen & Pollmann (2001), are also observed in Korean and English: the smaller the number, the more frequent the number words and the local increase effect of reference numbers on the frequency distributions. However, this paper additionally shows that the language-particular number system also affects the frequency distributions of number words.

# 기준수(reference number) # 빈도 분포(frequency distribution) # 상관관계 분석(correlation analysis) # 수 단어(number word) # 정규 분포 (normal distribution)

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