The Level of Lexical loss of Adverbs in Korat Dialect: A Case Study of Students in Nakhon Ratchasima Province
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This research article purposes to study the level of lexical loss of adverbs modifying verbs “sleep,” “sit,” “stand,” “walk,” and “run” in Korat dialect of Informants who are students of grade 10-12 in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. Sixty-eight vocabularies have been selected from Thaworn Subongkot (1974), to form the questionnaire on the use of adverbs in Korat dialect. Data was gathered from a target group of 160 students of grade 10-12 in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The data were analyzed by determining the percentage of vocabulary loss by Chanthao (2016)’ criteria. It is classified into five levels - from level one, where the vocabulary loss is at a low level, until level five, where the vocabulary loss is at the highest level. The findings indicate that the lexical loss has occurred with all adverbs modifying the verbs, "sleep", "sit", "stand", "walk", and "run" in Korat dialect. In particular, there were 12 words which the loss was at level 5, accounting for 17.65%. In accordance to the data, adverbs in Korat dialect could loss in the future as their use decreases.
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