This research aims to discuss whether Thai-Chinese unbalanced bilinguals who possess low proficiency in Chinese stored syntactic representation of both Thai and Chinese together or separate. The experiment tested Active-Passive structures through...本研究的目的是為了探討初級泰－漢雙語者如何儲存其兩種語言的句法表徵？一起儲存還是分開儲存？本研究以泰語與漢語主動句和被動句的跨語言句法啟動（Cross-linguistic structural priming）為實驗方式，研究發現當泰－漢雙語者一聽到泰語被動句而使用漢語被動句的比例比當他們先聽到泰語主動句而使用漢語被動句的比例還高。這表示泰－漢不相等雙語者可能會把泰語和漢語句法規則相同的部分儲存在一起。研究結果支持了語言遷移（Language Transfer）的理論。

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...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

rate was “gei 1 (S2: S-V-O-gei-X)”. On the question of whether the syntactical structure S1 could be converted into the syntactical structure S2, the learners found that the mastery of S1: S+gei+X+V+O could be converted into S2: S-V-O-gei-X, which

This study aims to investigate the relation between syntax and semantic interpretation of Thai toponyms in French guidebooks on Thailand by emphasizing the modified toponyms in terms of syntactic structure. The data were collected from 4 French... guidebooks including le Routard, le Guide vert, Le Petit Futé and Encyclopédie du voyage. The results show that the syntactic modification affects the mode of reference. Two types of semantic interpretation are identified: a metaphoric interpretation

themselves, the impressive tourist places, and the country economy. In analyzing the syntactic positions of the pause fillers, I use "The Structure of Thai: Grammatical System" (Vichin Panupong, 1989) and "A Grammar of Contemporary English" (Quirk et als.... This study also investigates the relationship between those acoustic characteristics of the Thai pause fillers and the syntactic positions. The data were collected from thirty educated subjects of Standard Thai. They were asked to narrates three stories about

enables them to be able to generalize the syntactic characteristics of each discourse genre. This research illustrates a linguistic approach to the study of discourse analysis based on the Thai narrative "Mom," one of Kukrit Pramote's short stories.... The model proposed by Robert E. Longacre (1996, 1983) is employed and adopted as a major criterion for analyzing two structures within the chosen text. One is the plot structure, i.e. the notional structure, which refers to the deep structure of a narrative

Studies language development of Thai children narratives aged 4 6 9 and 11 years old comparing to adults in 3 aspects. Describes the characterization of syntactic complexity, including both paradigmatic complexity and structural complexity, studies... grammatical integration of complex units and examines the correlation between the development of syntactic complexity and the grammatical integration. It was found that types and number of words, total number of clauses in complex units and tree diagram

Existential sentences are a very distinctive type of sentence in Chinese. They have a very unique syntactic format. The academic community has long been concerned with the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of the existing sentences... by the mother tongue. The unmarked verbs and structures are easy to learn, and the verbs or structures with higher degree of markup need a further study to get better results for Thai native speakers.

Numerals and Verbal Classifiers constitute NumP, which occupy the position of adverbial and complement respectively, and form two syntactic structures with verbs or verb phrases: ‘V+NumP’ and ‘NumP+VP’. This paper analyzes the imbalance... of distribution, frequency and word form of Verbal Classifiers in the two structures, trying to clarify the semantic category of the two structures: ‘V+NumP’ indicates the efficacy, and ‘NumP+VP’ indicates the comparison; it concludes that the pragmatic functions