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1. In the description of the English intonation system intonation patterns are traditionally presented as pitch-patterns, or ____________. 2. The meaning of the contours is, generally speaking, the sum total of the meanings of the ___________ ___________ and the ____________. 3. Intonation patterns differ in the expressiveness of their meaning, which is proportional to the expressiveness (vividness) of their form. According to this principle intonation patterns can be subdivided into emotionally ______________ and emotionally ____________. 4. Falling contours all sound definite and ______________, presenting information as ‘news’ which a listener is not expected to know about in advance. 5. The basic meaning of an utterance bearing a falling-rising nuclear tone is largely the same with or without a head of any kind: it is _____________ and referring to the preceding context. 6. In to-sequences there is a high probability of tonal _______________, which means that if there is a fall (or, let us say, a rise or a fall-rise) in the preceding group, there is a tendency to use the same or a similar kind of nuclear tone in the following one. 7. _______________ tones are used in speech for two main purposes: 1) to increase the semantic prominence of separate words in an utterance or that of entire utterance; 2) to attach an emotional colouring to an utterance. 8. Varieties of language correlating with certain extralinguistic, i.e. social situations are generally known as _______________. 37 TEST 3 Choose the right answer. 1. Nuclear stress occupies a relatively fixed position in an intonation-group: in the absence of any disturbing contextual factors it falls on … semantic item. (A) last (B) first (C) penultimate (D) mid 2. The … of syllable duration is more typical of unstressed syllables in an utterance. (A) development (B) compression (C) lengthening (D) increase 3. The number of the component parts in a tune may vary. The only indispensable element of a tune is the … (A) head (B) tail (C) nucleus (D) prehead 4. In the Rise-Fall the implication is basically of a modal-attitudinal kind: the Rise-Fall often gives the impression that what the speaker admits or denies is in conflict with his own or his interlocutor’s previous opinion. That is why it is sometimes called a … tone. (A) lexical (B) apologetic (C) funny (D) quizzical 5. The Scandent Head before a … nuclear tone may express the speaker’s irritation, or, vice versa, cheerfulness and interest. (A) static (B) low rising (C) falling (D) rising 6. The basic intonation patterns patterns are associated with a/an … communicative unit. (A) complete (B) incomplete (C) new (D) allophonic 7. Exclamations pronounced with the contour … sound light, airy, involved, sometimes mildly surprised. (A) High/Stepping Head + High Narrow Rise (B) High/Stepping Head + High/Mid Wide Fall (C) Low Head + Low Narrow Rise (D) Low Head + Low Narrow Fall 8. There is a rather higher probability for … tones in the initial and median phrases than in the final phrase of a supraphrasal unity. (A) kinetic (C) static (B) falling (D) non-falling 9. When both the prenuclear and nuclear stresses are made emphatic the overall prominence of an utterance …. (A) is reduced (B) doesn’t change (C) is decreased (D) is increased 10. The compound tune Fall + Fall often imparts a feeling of … to special and general questions. (A) insistence (B) surprise (C) apology (D) incredulity |