This paper utilizes the corpus application "Chuunagon" to investigate specific examples of the Japanese modality expressions "youda" and "mitaida" within the
Nagoya University Conversation Corpus (NUCC). The investigation results reveal that
there are only 15 instances of "youda" found, while "mitaida" has 150 instances,
indicating a tenfold difference. As a result, it reaffirms the observation made by many
researchers that "youda" is primarily used in written language, while "mitaida" is more
common in spoken language.
Furthermore, this paper examines the preceding words of "youda" and "mitaida"
and analyzes their collocations. Although only the word "omotteiru" is found to be
common between the two, there is still some level of collocational trend captured between "youda" and "mitaida".