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TEST 7 Choose the right answer
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| TEST 7
Choose the right answer. 1. The occurrence and the distribution of utterance-stress in an English utterance are determined by factors of two kinds: … and rhythmic. (A) morphemic (B) semantic (C) linguistic (D) non-segmental 2. When the number of syllables in adjacent stress-groups is not equal, the speed of utterance will be the highest in the group having … number of syllables. (A) strange (B) the smallest (C) the largest (D) even 3. … tones are generally classified according to the following criteria: 1) direction of the pitch change; 2) width of pitch change, or its interval; relative position of the pitch change within the speaker’s voice range. (A) Only falling (B) Level (C) Static (D) Kinetic 4. It should be noted that the first element of the Fall-Rise – the fall – is phonetically … the second. (A) more prominent than (B) less prominent than (C) as prominent as (D) subordinate to 5. In the … Head the first fully stressed syllable is said on a high pitch (it can also be mid-high or very high); each following fully stressed syllable (i.e. beginning with the second) always begins lower than the preceding stressed syllable. (A) High Level (B) Low Level (A) Ascending (D) Descending 6. In the description of the English intonation system intonation patterns are traditionally presented as pitch-patterns, or …. The term implies the shape formed by the movement of the pitch over the relevant points in an utterance. (A) tails (B) contours (C) heads (D) clitics 7. The contour … in statements expresses questioning or asking for repetition because the speaker has failed to hear or is surprised at hearing something that another person has said. (A) High/Stepping Head + Low Wide Rise (B) Low Head + Low Narrow Rise (C) High/Stepping Head + High Narrow Rise (D)High/Stepping Head + High/Mid Wide Fall 8. The combination … occurs mostly when two general questions are asked in succession, their semantic value and the speaker’s attitude being identical. (A) High Rise | High Rise (B) Fall-Rise | Fall- Rise (C) High Fall | High Fall (D) Low Fall | Low Fall 9. In tunes with the nuclear Emphatic … the High Irregular Prehead is used to express disapproval, indignation or insistence. (A) Mid/Low Fall (B) Mid/Low Rise (C) Fall-Rise (D) irregular tone 10. The Fall-Rise in the compound tune Fall + Fall Rise is very often of a low emphatic variety, which has a more … note than the High Fall-Rise, especially in statements. (A) dogmatic (B) surprising (C) insistent (D) apologetic |