VACANA
School of Liberal Arts
Mae Fah Luang University
School of Liberal Arts
Mae Fah Luang University
ISSN: 2287-0903
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the syntactic complexity of a noun phrase and patterns of noun modification in the English research articles written by native English and Thai writers. Pearson's chi-squared test results indicate that there were no significant differences between native English and Thai writers’ use of noun modifiers (p = .27). The three most frequent patterns found were 1) adjective + head noun (e.g. several methods), 2) adjective + head noun + prepositional phrase (e.g. the impact of an utterance), and 3) adjective + adjective + head noun (e.g. this last matter). In addition, the patterns of noun modification were independent of being native or Thai writers (p = .74).
บทคัดย่อ
การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาความซับซ้อนของนามวลีและรูปแบบการขยายคำนามที่พบในบทความวิจัยภาษาอังกฤษที่เขียนโดยเจ้าของภาษาและคนไทย การวิเคราะห์ด้วยสถิติทดสอบไคสแควร์แบบเพียร์สันพบว่าการใช้คำขยายคำนามของผู้เขียนที่เป็นเจ้าของภาษากับผู้เขียนคนไทยไม่มีความแตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสําคัญทางสถิติ (p = .27) รูปแบบการขยายคำนามที่พบมากที่สุดคือ 1) คำคุณศัพท์ + คำนามหลัก เช่น several methods 2) คำคุณศัพท์ + คำนามหลัก + บุพบทวลี เช่น the impact of an utterance และ 3) คำคุณศัพท์ + คำคุณศัพท์ + คำนามหลัก เช่น this last matter และรูปแบบของการขยายคำนามไม่ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับการเป็นเจ้าของภาษาหรือการเป็นผู้เขียนคนไทย (p = .74)
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