FEATURES OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE QUIZ

'Three men in a pub' and 'Goin' to the party?' are examples of:

• elision

• dialect

• ellipsis

'Er', 'um', 'you know' are examples of:

• prosodic features

• fillers

• tag questions

'Idiolect' is:

• the language of fools

• an individually distinctive style of speaking

• a collective idiomatic phrase

'Sort of', 'like', 'and so on', 'or whatever', 'kind of thing' are examples of:

• vague language

• voiced pauses

• accent

'Back-channelling' is:

• repeating the other talker’s words

• an intrusive medical procedure

• listener feedback signalling support or understanding

'Deixis' is:

• words which point to something ‘outside’ the text

• a word which signals a change of subject

• often misspelt

Pitch, pace, stress and rhythm are examples of:

• paralinguistic features

• accent

• prosodic features

'Gonna', 'gimme' and 'loadsa' are examples of:

• synonyms

• elision

• phatic talk

'We was going down the road' and 'He didn’t know nothing' are examples of:

• non-standard grammar

• poor English

• transactional language

Hesitation, repetition, false starts are examples of:

• paralinguistic features

• interactional language

• non-fluency features