@article{oai:osaka-shoin.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004167, author = {Tsuji, Hiromi}, journal = {大阪樟蔭女子大学人間科学研究紀要}, month = {Jan}, note = {P(論文), The present study examined written narratives in Japanese elicited from the ‘Frog Story' with a particular focus on mental state references. Unlike most research that analysed evaluative comments on clauses,the present study is new in the following aspects: 1) analyses were made after narratives were broken into morphemes, which are the smallest meaningful unit of a word and 2) the variety and frequency of word use were identified and evaluated to de scribe the characteristics of Japanese narratives. The results indicated that Japanese students used a wider variety of mental state words than non-mental state words. However, the fre­ quency of mental word use was significantly less than that of non-mental state words. The re­ sults suggest that both indices may be useful for describing and evaluating narratives when study­ ing narrative from developmental and cross-linguistic perspectives.}, pages = {77--85}, title = {How many mental state words can be elicited from the “Frog story"? An analysis of narratives written in Japanese}, volume = {9}, year = {2010} }