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