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Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-185). / Electronic reproduction. / "Over the last three decades, the study of codeswitching has attracted many data-oriented and theory-oriented sociolinguists and syntacticians. It provides an avenue to understanding the relationship between social processes and linguistic forms. In this vein, the present study examines Thai/English codeswitching practiced by a group of Thai people in Hawai'i from two perspectives: sociolinguistic as well as syntactic. In this study, different theoretical models are tested against each aspect of codeswitching. ..."--Abstract. / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / xv, 185 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (M.A. (Linguistics))--Mahidol University, 1982.

Du fait que les mots thaï possèdent une propriété de polyvalence catégorielle et fonctionnelle, nous essayons donc d’étudier, dans le cas de จาก /cà:k/, ses conditions de fonctionnement et ses valeurs sémantiques sans la prise en considération de la catégorisation des mots que l’on avait faite traditionnellement. Ainsi, la remise en cause des classifications des mots thaï va nous ramener à étudier le fonctionnement de l’unité lexicale จาก/cà:k/ en tant que marqueur. Cette étude est inspirée de la théorie des opérations prédicative et énonciative d’Antoine CULIOLI selon laquelle chaque marqueur est considéré comme une trace observable d’opérations prédicative et énonciative. En partant de ce point de vue, l’analyse proposée dans ce travail vise à montrer les points suivants : comment le marqueur จาก /cà:k/, participe à la construction du sens des énoncés dans lesquels il peut s’intégrer, quelles sont les propriétés des contextes et des co-textes qui rendent possible ou impossible le marqueur จาก /cà:k/ et que le marqueur จาก /cà:k/ est un opérateur de prédication dont le fonctionnement singulier peut être ramené à un faisceau de traits saillants de la catégorie référentielle de จาก /cà:k/. / Owing to the fact that the Thai words are poly-functional, we thus try to study the lexical unit จาก /cà:k/, its functions and its semantic values without the consideration of the traditional categorization. This interrogation about the Thai word classification leads us to study the lexical unit จาก /cà:k/ as a marker. This study is inspired by the theory of the predicative and enunciative operations of Antoine CULIOLI. According to this theory, each marker is regarded as an observable trace of predicative and enunciative operations. On the basis of this point of view, the analysis engaged in this task aims at showing the following points: how the marker จาก /cà:k/ takes part in the construction of meaning in one sentence in which it can be integrated, which properties of the contexts and the co-texts make possible or impossible for the marker จาก /cà:k/ and that the marker จาก /cà:k/ is an operator of predication of which the singular operation can generate the features of the referential category of จาก /cà:k/.

Speech audiometry materials are essential for thorough audiological testing. One aspect of speech audiometry is evaluating an individual's speech recognition threshold (SRT). Recorded materials for SRT are available in many languages; however there are no widely published recorded SRT materials available in the Thai language. The goal of this study was to develop relatively psychometrically equivalent SRT materials for evaluating the hearing abilities of native speakers of the Thai language. To accomplish this, 90 commonly used bisyllabic Thai words were digitally recorded by a male and a female talker and evaluated by 20 native Thai listeners. Twenty-eight words with relatively steep and homogeneous psychometric function slopes were selected and adjusted to reduce threshold variability. These 28 selected words were digitally recorded onto compact disc to facilitate SRT testing for native Thai speakers.