TEST 5 Choose the right answer. 1. … stress is used in the tail after a falling or rising-falling nuclear tone and in the prehead,
where it is identified as such due to the pitch contrast with the onset syllable.
(A) High partial
(B) Nuclear
(C) Partial
(D) Low partial
2. Polysyllabic derivative words, like examination, conversation are … in their accentual pattern
than double-stressed words with the second stress having a semantic function, e.g. weekend,
unknown, well-known.
(A) more stable
(B) less stable
(C) more attractive
(D) more unstable
3. The syllable bearing the … tone is called the nucleus of the utterance.
(A) low
(B) prenuclear
(C) terminal
(D) static
4. In the … the implication is basically a continuation of the information already contained in the
utterance, it is, so-to-speak, lexically predictable.
(A) tone
(B) Fall-Rise
(C) Low Rise
(D) Rise-Fall
5. The … Head is used in combination with low nuclear tones which are often of a narrow
variety. Such utterances often convey a cool, detached, phlegmatic, disinterested or disapproving
attitude.
(A)
Broken
Descending Stepping
(B) Low
(C) High
(D) Stepping
6. All the basic intonation patterns can be contrasted to one another ….
(A) both in form
and meaning
(B) only in form
(C) only in meaning
(D) in opposition
7. Statements pronounced with the contour … sound enthusiastic, assertive, sometimes
expressing contrast and emphasis.
(A) High/Stepping
Head + High Narrow
Rise
(B)
High/Stepping
Head + Mid Wide
Rise
(C) Low Head + Fall-
Rise Divided
(D) Stepping Head +
High/Mid Wide Fall
8. The tone-sequence … is used when an afterthought is added to a perfunctory statement which
means keeping the same casual attitude throughout the utterance.
(A) Low Rise | Low
Rise
(B) Fall-Rise | Fall
Rise
(C) High (Mid) Fall |
Rise-Fall
(D) Low Fall | Low
Fall
9. In tunes with the nuclear Emphatic Mid/Low Fall the High Irregular Prehead is used to
express ….
(A) incredulity
(B) enthusiasm
(C)
disapproval,
indignation
or
insistence
(D) extreme surprise
10. The compound tune Fall + Fall often imparts a feeling of … to imperatives.
(A) persuasiveness
and expostulation
(B) apology
(C) mystification
(D) energy