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Questions

1. 
   How do you understand broad and narrow definitions of intonation?
   
2. 
   What is the difference between intonation and prosody?
   
3. 
   Is Rhythmic Group and Intonation group the same?
   
4. 
   What other names of a syntagm do you know?
   
5. 
   Can you explain the elements of an Intonation group?
   
6. 
   What functions can Intonation perform?
   
7. 
   What conclusions can we do on discussing Intonation?
   

Tests for the seminar

1. 
   What is a broad definition of intonation?
   

a) Variation of the pitch of the voice

*b) Complex unity of speech melody, sentence stress, tempo, rhythm and voice timbre c) It is suggested by English linguists

d) Combination of intensity, frequency, duration and contiguity

2. 
   What are the elements of an intonation group?
   

*a) Pre-head, head, nucleus, tail

2. 
   Pre-head, tempo, head, nucleus
   
3. 
   Head, level-tone, rhythm and timbre
   
4. 
   Tempo, timbre, sentence stress and tail
   
1. 
   Who suggests broad definition of intonation?
   

*a) Russian and Uzbek phoneticians

2. 
   American and British phonologists
   
3. 
   Representatives of the London phonological School
   
4. 
   I.A. Bandouin de Courtenay
   

1. 
   Who gives narrow definition of intonation?
   
   1. 
      Uzbek linguists
      
   2. 
      Russian linguists
      
   3. 
      British linguists*
      
   4. 
      Japanese linguists
      
2. 
   What is the definition of intonation according to the narrow definition of intonation? A) It is the stress of one word of a sentence.
   

2. 
   It is the longer pronunciation of a stressed syllable.
   
3. 
   It is the fall or rise of the voice in speech.* D) It is pronunciation of the sentence with level tone.
   

3. 
   Define intonation according to the broad definition
   
   1. 
      *It is a complex unity of speech melody, sentence stress, tempo, rhythm, pausation and voice – tamber.
      
   2. 
      It is a unity of speech melody and sentence stress.
      
   3. 
      It is the pausation of utterance.
      
   4. 
      It is the voice – tamber.
      

4. 
   What functions does intonation carry out?
   
   1. 
      *Constitutive, delimitative, distinctive and recognitive functions.
      
   2. 
      Constitutive and recognitive functions.
      
   3. 
      Syntactical and lexical functions.
      
   4. 
      It has no functions.
      
5. 
   What is a constitutive function of intonation?
   
   1. 
      It distinguishes different types of sentences.
      
   2. 
      It expresses characteristic features of a sentence.
      
   3. 
      *It constitutes different grammatical structures. D) It doesn‘t mean anything.
      

6. 
   What is distinctive function of intonation?
   
   1. 
      It distinguishes certain words in a sentence.
      
   2. 
      *It distinguishes communicative types of sentences.
      
   3. 
      It distinguishes grammatical structures of a sentence. D) It doesn‘t distinguish anything.
      

7. 
   How many tones does R.Kingdon distinguish?
   
   1. 
      2 tones
      
   2. 
      3 tones
      
   3. 
      4 tones
      
   4. 
      *6 tones