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6. Define intonation according to the broad definition

5. 
   it is a complex unity of speech melody, sentence stress, tempo, rhythm, pausation and voice – tamber.
   
6. 
   it is a unity of speech melody and sentence stress.
   
7. 
   it is the pausation of utterance.
   
8. 
   it is the voice – tamber.
   

7. What functions does intonation carry out?

5. 
   constitutive, delimitative, distinctive and recognitive functions.
   
6. 
   constitutive and recognitive functions.
   
7. 
   syntactical and lexical functions.
   
8. 
   it has no functions.
   

8. What does emphatic intonation mean?

1. 
   it expresses positive and negative emotions and feelings.
   
2. 
   it expresses only emphasis for contrast.
   
3. 
   it expresses only emphasis for intensity.
   
4. 
   it doesn‘t express anything.
   

9. The heads (рге-nuclear patterns) frequently used in the academic-style

reading are…

1. 
   level heads of all ranges (low, mid, high).
   
2. 
   broken descending heads.
   
3. 
   different types of heads which are alternated to break the monotony of a scientific-style talk and to attract listeners‘ attention.
   
4. 
   stepping and falling heads; the alternation of descending and ascending heads (in enumerations)
   

10. The attitudinal function of intonation comes to the force in…

1. 
   the publicistic style.
   
2. 
   the academic style.
   
3. 
   the declamatory style.
   
4. 
   the conversational style.
   

11. Informal spontaneous conversation is characterized by a high proportion of hesitation phenomena of all kinds because…

1. 
   conversational-style talks are often unpredictable; they display the lack of their planning and the randomness of their topics.
   
2. 
   speakers use paralinguistic features to support their conversational interaction.
   
3. 
   speakers rely very much on extralinguistic factors in everyday communication.
   
4. 
   speakers are too relaxed in informal situations to monitor
   
5. 
   their linguistic behavior.
   

12. 
    The process of adapting the articulation of a consonant to a vowel or vice versa is called:
    

1. 
   accommodation
   
2. 
   labialization
   
3. 
   canalization
   
4. 
   elision
   

12. 
    Who suggests the muscular tension (or the articulatory effort) theory? a) D. Jones
    
    2. 
       L. Scherba
       
    3. 
       F. de Saussure
       
    4. 
       O. Jespersen
       
13. 
    What phonemes except vowels are syllabic in English? a) fricatives
    
    2. 
       plosives
       
    3. 
       consonants
       
    4. 
       sonorant
       
14. 
    Word stress in language may be….
    

1. 
   dynamic, musical, quantitative, qualitative
   
2. 
   dynamic, force, stative, fixed
   
3. 
   articulatory, acoustic, functional, auditory
   
4. 
   musical, tonic, dynamic, fixed
   

2^nd INTERMEDIATE TEST ON THEORETICAL PHONETICS OF ENGLISH

FOR 3^rd YEAR STUDENTS

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