Abstract
In recent years, the number of international students residing in the Kansai region has been steadily increasing. Prior research indicates, first, that these students are motivated to acquire the Kansai dialect and, second, that the university campus is the setting where they encounter it most frequently. To identify the variety of Kansai dialect to which undergraduate international students are exposed on campus, it is necessary to extract the forms commonly used by native Kansai speakers from different sub-regions. Accordingly, this paper examines the lexical items employed by young native speakers of the Kansai dialect, drawing on data from the Kansai Dialect Corpus.
