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TEST 4 Choose the right answer
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Choose the right answer. 1. … stress normally occurs in the head of an intonation-group and in the tail of a rising or falling-rising tune while in the prehead it may be used but occasionally. (A) High partial (B) Low partial (C) Partial (D) Nuclear 2. The … of one of the stresses in speech is more typical of double-stressed words with a second stress having a semantic function, e.g. weekend, unknown, well-known. (A) adding (B) omission (C) introduction (D) correction 3. Unstressed or partially stressed syllables following the nucleus are called the …. (A) phrase (B) head (C) proclitics (D) tail 4. The … is the most commonly used variety of falling tones in English. It starts about the high- mid level and ends at the bottom, thus covering the mid and the low pitch zones of the speaker’s voice-range. (A) High Wide Fall (B) High Narrow Fall (C) Mid Wide Fall (D) Low Narrow Fall 5. In the … Head semantic prominence is diffuse, or balanced, i.e. distributed evenly, and this emphasizes the meaning of the whole utterance, increasing the overall prominence. In the … Head, on the other hand, semantic prominence is concentrated on the first semantic item (besides the nucleus, of course). (A) Sliding, Falling (B) Falling, Sliding (C) Sliding, Stepping (D) Sliding, Broken 6. The notion of a basic intonation pattern refers to a … tune functioning within an independent utterance. (A) composite (B) simple (C) combined (D) compound 7. Special questions pronounced with the contour … sound brisk, businesslike, lively. (A) High Head + High/Mid Wide Fall (B) Stepping Head + Low Wide/Narrow Fall (C) Low Head + Low Narrow Rise (D) High/Stepping Head + High Narrow Rise 8. A relevant feature of co-ordinative tone-sequences is … of prenuclear pattern, particularly, the pitch height of the head. (A) elimination (B) removal (C) dissimilarity (D) similarity 9. When the onset syllable of a low rising tune is made emphatic a not of … is suggested to an utterance. (A) enthusiasm (B) surprise (C) impatience (D) incredulity 10. The compound tune Fall + Fall often imparts a feeling of … to statements. (A) disagreement (B) dogmatism (C) apology (D) contrast |