Variable Production of English Past Tense Morphology: A Case Study of a Thai-speaking Learner of English

Authors

Chariya Prapobaratanakul
Nattama Pongpairoj

Publication Date

2016-01-01

Abstract

The study investigated variable production of English past tense morphology by an L1 Thaispeaking learner of English. Due to the absence of the past tense inflectional morphology in the Thai language, production of English past tense morphemes poses a persistent problem for L1 Thaispeaking learners of English. Hypotheses have been made in accordance with Lardiere's (2003) Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH), which predicts that the participant possesses the syntactic knowledge of the English past tense morphology. The participant's variability in L2 production of English past tense morphology was not due to a lack of L2 grammatical knowledge but rather the result of syntactic mapping to the morphophonological form i.e. extra-syntactic factors. The results confirmed the MSIH, suggesting that English past tense morphemes were acquired but the production problems lie in accessing the morphology.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.51.1.3

First Page

70

Last Page

95

Recommended Citation

Prapobaratanakul, Chariya and Pongpairoj, Nattama (2016) "Variable Production of English Past Tense Morphology: A Case Study of a Thai-speaking Learner of English," PASAA: Vol. 51: Iss. 1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.51.1.3
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol51/iss1/4