0 a word that is used before a noun to show which thing you mean. The words ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘this’, and ‘some’ are determiners. -- คำบ่งชี้ซึ่งใช้นำหน้าคำนาม
These determiner genitives easily vary with corresponding noun modifiers in contexts where the whole construction is definite and specific.
Yet, in practice, determiner noun modifiers are far more likely to be definite than indefinite.
Here, the telephone is a unique and familiar object (and hence it is marked with the definite determiner), but it is not specific.
The additional material will be referred to here as the determiner-intensifier-adjective (det-int- adj) sequence.
That is, attention was paid to whether a determiner was provided in contexts where it is obligatory.
Table 3 presents both children's overall production of determiners (including target-like, non-target-like and filler determiners), showing number and percent use in obligatory contexts.
The child will usually hear nouns preceded by an obligatory determiner.
However, sheer amount of exposure has been called into question as a determiner of rate of vocabulary learning.