Abstract
This study quantifies the intensities of degree and frequency of Japanese common expressions that modify adverbially an inflectable word. The 107 and 111 college-aged subjects were asked to arrange 19 words of degree and 16 words of frequency in order of the intensity, respectively. The diagonal paired comparison test was also applied to both 21 degree words and 21 frequency words using 1210 and 1200 college-aged subjects. Based on the derived intensities and the investigation conducted by Oda in 1969, the valid usage of these expressions in order to analyze open-ended responses and to constitute an ordinal scale was discussed.
