To analyze the characteristics of standard Thai tones, namely, fundamental frequency, fundamental frequency range and duration, produced by Japanese speakers with high and low experience in Thai in comparison to those of Thai native speakers.... This research was conducted by having the participants produce a set of monosyllabic words in citation forms and in devised sentences in order to show how Japanese speakers with varying experience in Thai produce the Thai tones, and how the Thai tones produced

” verbs in the two languages and the speakers’ cognitive system realized through the behavior of categorization and attention. The data was collected from dictionaries, Chulalongkorn University Corpus Base and ten native speaker of Thai and Japanese. A... are subcategorized according to the shape of objects. Experiments were conducted so as to find out whether speakers of Thai and Japanese categorize things and pay attention to things in the same way as the subcategorization of “put” verbs in their languages suggest

The purpose of this study is to compare the acoustic characteristics of the five Bangkok Thai tones as produced by five Japanese speakers to those produced by native Thai speakers. The five tonal characteristics of Thai speakers are as follows - mid...-level (sǎa- man), low-level (?eek), high-falling (thoo), mid-rising (trii) and low-rising (chàt-tà?-waa). The tonal characteristics of level tones produced by Japanese speakers are somewhat different from those produced by Thai speakers. High tone

, Chinese and Thai speakers. The relationship is inferred from their behavior concerning awareness and memory shown in the experiments. The hypothesis of this study is that speakers of English and Japanese, tense languages, are more awareness of and memorize... time better than speakers of Chinese and Thai, tenseless languages. The experiment of awareness is a picture – describing task. There were 109 participants (26 English; 30 Japanese; 22 Chinese; 31 Thai). The results show that English and Japanese

and Japanese group discussions. The results revealed that the purposes of metapragmatic commentary used among both Thai and Japanese speakers included 3 major goals: assessing speech activities, organizing talk, and clarifying communicative intention... of communication. Thai speakers’ communication style tends to be more direct, while Japanese prefer to modify their opinion to be consistent with others by expressing hesitation.

and expressive. The second part of this research concerns the use of na and si by native Thai speakers, Japanese learners of Thai, and English learners of Thai. The results show that in role play and pair discussion tasks, the overall uses of na and si...This dissertation aims to analyze communicative functions of the Thai final particles na and si and speech acts of utterances in which they occur, and to explore the use of na by Japanese learners of Thai and English learners of Thai, comparing

with linguistic honorifics. This study aims to compare linguistic honorifics in three different languages; i.e., Japanese, Thai, and English, and to examine their relationship with the cognitive systems of the speakers.To analyze linguistic features indicating... to English, is considered to have more such ways. It is inferred that age and status are determinants of honorific forms. Experiments of attention to and categorization of people and things were conducted on 31 Japanese, 43 Thai and 30 English native speakers

in a conversation with a person whom a speaker has such value with. The aim of this paper is to compare the social functions of “khwam krengjai” and “enryo” in Thai and Japanese context, focusing on the uses of the verb “krengjai” and “enryo suru... to the hearer 3) to encourage the hearer to invite the speaker again 4) to create a good image for the speaker. Among these four functions, there is only the first function which corresponds to the function of "enryo" in Japanese. This reflects that even in both