Intonation

VI: {{172}} Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: In the broad sense intonation is …

-: a complex unity of all its components

-: speech melody and pitch variations

-: the stress which is the strongest compared with the other stresses used in a word

-: tempo, rhythm and pausation

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S: The components of intonation are …

-: speech melody, word stress, tempo, rhythm and pausation, voice-tamber

-: pre-head, head, head

-: the Low Fall, the High Fall, the Rise-Fall, the Low Rise, the High Rise, the Fall-Rise

-: pre-head, head, tail

VI: {{174}} Q: The sentence can be completed using your knowledge of theory of the subject.

S: Rhythm is the regular alternation of stressed and ###.

VI: {{175}}

S: A special voice colouring is called ###.

VI: {{176}} Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: The parts of an intonation pattern are pre-head, head, nucleus, …

-: end

-: tail

-: finish

-: post-head

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S: The phonemic composition of the words of a sentence may differ from that composition of words when they are used in …

-: isolation

-: a context

-: a text

-: a phrase

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S: Isolated words don’t express the speaker’s attitude, feelings and thoughts, they don’t constitute a …

-: sentence

-: form

-: word

-: combination

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S: Intonation turns the word or word combination into a …

-: action

-: sentence

-: type

-: context

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S: Intonation performs its sentence-constitutive function not only in oral speech, but also in … language.

-: written

-: English

-: French

-: foreign

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S: In written texts intonation is represented by …

-: grammar

-: punctuation

-: phonemes

-: allophones

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S: Intonation cannot represent all the extremely rich and varied intonations of living …

-: being

-: speech

-: organism

-: people

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S: The punctuation marks at the end of the sentence do double duty – delimit sentences, indicate different syntactic types of …

-: sentences

-: words

-: phrases

-: units

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S: A full stop signals the writer’s intention to make the sentence …

-: declarative

-: interrogative

-: exclamatory

-: complex

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S: The question mark may signal two different patterns of intonation: downward and …

-: upward

-: inward

-: fall-rise

-: special

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S: The change of pitch may be a realization of two phonologically opposed sentence tones: falling and …

-: rising

-: falling-rising

-: falling

-: rising and falling

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S: An exclamation mark signals that the fall is …

-: lower

-: wider

-: slow

-: quick

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S: Some phoneticians define intonation only as variation of …

-: pitch

-: tempo

-: tamber

-: pauses

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S: In the narrow sense intonation is speech melody and …

-: pitch variations

-: tempo

-: stress

-: pausation

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S: Although the four components of intonation function all together, none of them can be isolated in actual …

-: analysis

-: speech

-: sentence

-: pitch

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S: The constitutive, distinctive and … functions – are functions of intonation.

-: identificatory

-: phonological

-: stylistic

-: lexical

VI: {{192}}

S: The constitutive function manifests itself in the delimitative function, both within a sentence and at its …

-: end

-: middle

-: tail

-: nucleus

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S: The delimitative function within a sentence consists in delimiting from each other its portions which are known as …

-: groups

-: intonation-groups

-: grammar-groups

-: terminal groups

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S: The last stressed syllable of a sense-group or sentence is called …

-: nucleus

-: tail

-: head

-: variant

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S: A syllable containing a high fall is … than one with a low fall.

-: slower

-: longer

-: shorter

-: quicker

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S: A stressed syllable is usually represented like a dash, an unstressed – like a …

-: dot

-: curve

-: stave

-: tone

VI: {{197}}

S: All nuclear tones may be made …

-: emphatic

-: slower

-: longer

-: quicker

VI: {{198}}

S: The High Normal tones are in most frequent use, and may be considered as the … variety.

-: territorial

-: basic

-: dialectal

-: regional

VI: {{199}}

S: One section of an intonation pattern, formed by unstressed or partially stressed syllable(s) preceding the 1^st fully stressed syllable is called the …

-: prehead

-: head

-: nucleus

-: tail

VI: {{200}}

S: One section of an intonation pattern, formed by the 1^st fully stressed syllable of the intonation-group is called the …

-: prehead

-: head

-: nucleus

-: tail

VI: {{201}}

S: One section of an intonation-group, formed by the stressed and unstressed syllables lying between the head and the nucleus is called the …

-: body

-: prehead

-: head

-: nucleus

VI: {{202}}

S: When the nuclear syllable is followed by any unstressed or partially stressed syllable(s) it is called the …

-: prehead

-: tail

-: head

-: body

VI: {{203}}

S: The type of tail depends on the … tone used.

-: nuclear

-: final

-: terminal

-: level

VI: {{204}}

S: The terminal tone is a … unit than a nuclear tone.

-: broader

-: narrower

-: closer

-: more basic

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S: There are … pitch levels.

-: 2

-: 3

-: 4

-: 5

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S: Pitch range is the interval between … differently-pitched syllables.

-: 2

-: 3

-: 4

-: 5

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S: Pitch ranges may be wide or …

-: narrow

-: broad

-: quick

-: slow

VI: {{208}}

S: Pitch ranges should not be confused with pitch …

-: tone

-: level

-: end

-: analysis

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S: The American descriptivists define 4 pitch levels: extra high, high, mid and …

-: big

-: low

-: graphic

-: nucleus

VI: {{210}}

S: Terminal sentence tonemes distinguish the speaker’s emotional attitudes. This is the … function of intonation.

-: attitudinal

-: distinctive

-: functional

-: phonological

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S: If there are two or more words in an intonation-group, at least one of them should have sentence …

-: stress

-: end

-: pitch

-: group

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S: Sentence-stress may be defined as the special … given to one or more words so as to single them out among the other words in the same intonation group.

-: means

-: prominence

-: device

-: way

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S: Sentence accent is … from word accent.

-: different

-: the same

-: lower

-: narrower

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S: The distribution of stresses in a sentence is determined primarily by the … factor.

-: semantic

-: linguistic

-: functional

-: lexical

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S: Word accentuation is determined by the accentual rules of the …

-: language

-: speech

-: English

-: vocabulary

VI: {{216}}

S: A word or a group of words which conveys the most important point of communication in the sense group is called the …

-: head

-: communicative centre

-: nucleus

-: centre

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S: Communicative centre contains … information for the listener.

-: new

-: known

-: old

-: modern

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S: The stress on the word expressing the communicative centre is called the …

-: nominal stress

-: logical stress

-: normal stress

-: emphatic stress

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S: Different degrees of sentence-stress distinguish emphatic sentences from … ones.

-: unemphatic

-: complex

-: interrogative

-: compound

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S: The temporal component of intonation manifests itself in pauses, duration, …

-: stress

-: rhythm

-: speed

-: rate

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S: Physical nature of … is yet unknown.

-: tamber

-: stress

-: rhythm

-: tempo

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S: There are no languages which are spoken as a …

-: quick tone

-: monotone

-: rapid speech

-: variety

VI: {{223}}

S: Term “prosody” cannot substitute the term …

-: intonation

-: pitch

-: language

-: pause

VI: {{224}}

S: An intonation pattern contains … nucleus.

-: one

-: two

-: three

-: five

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S: Terminal tone is formed by the nucleus and …

-: the tail

-: head

-: prehead

-: body

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S: There exist several notation systems which represent intonation in …

-: listening

-: writing

-: asking

-: mentioning

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S: We can roughly divide the information in a message into given information and … information.

-: new

-: old

-: modern

-: old-fashioned

VI: {{228}}

S: Given information is called …

-: the theme

-: old

-: known

-: modern

VI: {{229}}

S: New information is called …

-: the rheme

-: acknowledged

-: admitted

-: accepted

VI: {{230}}

S: The most powerful phonological unit is the …

-: terminal tone

-: syntactical tone

-: nuclear tone

-: initial tone

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S: The number of terminal tones indicates the number of …

-: punctuation marks

-: intonation groups

-: syllables

-: words

VI: {{232}}

S: Rhythm is realized in lexical, syntactical and … means.

-: prosodic

-: grammatical

-: functional

-: modern

VI: {{233}}

S: There are two groups of languages syllable-timed and …

-: stress-timed

-: mono-timed

-: phoneme-timed

-: place-timed

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S: Speech rhythm has influence on vowel reduction and …

-: accommodation

-: elision

-: neutralization

-: transmission

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S: The more organized, the speech is the more …

-: rhythmical

-: quick

-: slow

-: modern

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S: The most striking rhythmicality is observed in …

-: poetry

-: literature

-: articles

-: tales

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S: There are numerous stylistic … known in poetry.

-: devices

-: words

-: structures

-: groups

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S: Repetition of the same sound at frequent intervals is called …

-: alliteration

-: assonance

-: parallelism

-: polysyndeton

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S: Imitation of the sounds of animals is called …

-: alliteration

-: sound symbolism

-: parallelism

-: polysyndeton

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S: The unusual word order chosen to emphasize the logical centre of the phrase is called …

-: inversion

-: assonance

-: parallelism

-: polysyndeton

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S: A syntactical stylistic device which stimulates rhythmicality of a poem by repetition of the same conjunctions is called …

-: inversion

-: polysyndeton

-: parallelism

-: alliteration

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S: A syntactical stylistic device which helps to increase rhythmicality by repetition of grammatical structures is called …

-: syntactical parallelism

-: repetition

-: alliteration

-: polysyndeton

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S: A special choice of words to show the increase of feelings, emotions or actions is called …

-: intensification

-: metaphor

-: simile

-: personification

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S: A fairy-tale has a specific manner of oral presentation, different from poetry and …

-: article

-: prose

-: text

-: newspaper style

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S: The end of a rhythmic unit is marked by a …

-: pause

-: tempo

-: stress

-: intensity

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S: Pauses may be long, very long and …

-: short

-: quick

-: simple

-: complex

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S: Speech without pauses seems …

-: unnatural

-: natural

-: formal

-: informal