ANALYSIS OF BIAS IN THE USAGE OF CHINESE MODAL PARTICLES “NE” AND “MA” IN THAI STUDENTS

Abstract

Tone is a very abstract and complex phenomenon, which is one of the grammatical approaches of the Chinese language. In general, a modal particle always expresses the same meaning in the same type of sentence, and in different types of sentences, the same modal particle always has internal consistency in the function of expressing tone. Chinese modal particle mainly include "a", "ma", "ba", "ne", etc. Modal particle are postpositional imaginary words, which are generally read tonelessly and are frequently used in daily life. People often think that modal particles are attached to the entire sentence, when in fact modal particle in subject-verb structures are usually placed after the predicate part. Since the modal particle such as "ne" and "ma" between Chinese and Thai are not one-to-one match , and the Thai word for "ma" also has the function of "ne", Thai students often have biases when using these two modal particles. Guided by modern grammar, this paper attempts to explore approaches or strategies to avoid the above biases from the perspective of negative migration of native languages, it aims to improve the accuracy of Thai students' usage of Chinese modal particle and avoid pragmatic errors.