The study investigated the representations of L1 Thai learners on English number agreement, a form which is non-existent in Thai. It is hypothesized that the L2 learners have target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement... 80% on the structures of singular/plural head with modification. However, deviant production was found on irregular nouns. The results indicated the learners’ target-like syntactic representations of English number agreement but incomplete knowledge

ปกติ(irregular plural morphemes)ในภาษาอังกฤษได้หรือไม่ และเพื่อศึกษาว่าการแปร (variability)ที่ปรากฏเป็นผลมาจากรูปแทนทางวากยสัมพันธ์ที่ไม่เหมือนเป้าหมาย (non-target-like syntactic representations) ตามสมมติฐานลักษณะแสดงหน้าที่ที่ล้มเหลว (Failed Functional... and irregular plural morphemes by L1 Thai learners is caused by non-target-like syntactic representations under the assumption of the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis (FFFH). The participants were 36 Thai learners of English divided into two groups based

that the frequency of verbs occurring in the target complement constructions probably contributed to the learners’ low-level constructional schemas (i.e. the abstract representations of constructions which are lexically specific) and their language use.