Suprasegmentals

What are segmental phonemes

• Consonants

• vowels

• consonants and vowels

• stress

Mark the primary stress in the given word

• Nov’ember

• ’November

• No’vember

• Novem’ber

The pattern of stressed and unstressed words across a sentence is called

• stress

• word stress

• sentence stress

• sentential stress

The number of vibrations per second produced by the vocal cords determines .....................

• stress

• pitch

• intonation

• juncture

Put it

­d

­ o

­ w

– n !

is an example of .....

• Falling tone

• Rising tone

• Fall rise

• Rise fall

A variation in the pitch of the voice while speaking is called....

• Tone

• stress

• elision

• pitch

The languages in which pitch serves to help distinguish words and grammatical categories

• Stress languages

• Tonelanguages

• Pitch languages

• intonation languages

The diacritic to indicate that a segment is long

• ...

• :

• ;

• +

Suprasegmental segments include

• pitch

• loudness

• length

• intonation

If Rhythm: Stress then Intonation:..................................