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The accent falls on the final syllable formed by the following suffix......

• ee (refugee, employee)

• iar (familiar)

• racy (democracy)

• logy (psychology)

How many degrees of word stees in English?

• 4

• 3

• 2

• 5

A.........as a meaningful unit has a definite phonetic structure.

Answer explanation

Word

In languages with musical word stress prominence is mainly achieved by variations in...........

• Only pitch level

• the main acoustic parameter being fundamental frequency

• Both of them

• It is not achieved by any variations

According to Whom, the effect of prominence is achieved by any or all of four factors: force, tone, length and vowel colour.

• A.C.Gimson

• D. Crystal

• Lillias Armstrong

• All of them

In language how many functions word stress performs?

• 4

• 2

• 3

• No functions

Word stress enables a person to identify a succession of syllables as a definite accentual pattern of a word. This function is known as ........

• Distinctive

• identificatory

• Constitutive

What is a branch of linguistics which studies the way phonetic units are used in particular extralinguistic situations?

• Pronunciation

• Linguistics

• Phonology

• Phonostylistics

According to place of stress, stress is into those with .......

• Fixed and free stress

• Word and sentence stress

• Only fixed stress

• Only free stress

What can be described in terms of purpose, participants and setting?

• Extralinguistic situation

• The scene

• Style of forming