An attempt to measure the familiarity of specialized Japanese in the nursing care field

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The Authors

Hiroyuki Muto is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences of Osaka Metropolitan University. He completed a PhD in Human Sciences at Osaka University. His research interests include perceptual / cognitive psychology and Bayesian statistical modeling.

Toshiyuki Kanamaru is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences of Kyoto University. He holds a Ph.D. in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University. His research interests include teaching English using cognitive linguistics and natural language processing.

The Authors’ Addresses

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Toshiyuki Kanamaru
Associate Professor
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
Yoshida-nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN
E-mail: kanamaru.toshiyuki.4z@kyoto-u.ac.jp