Section 1

Choose the words or phrases where loss of plosion is observed:

• prospect, robbed

• red dye, greatly

• big gate, bookcase

• didn't, clean

Choose the words or phrases where nasal plosion is observed:

• cushion, student

• curtains, kitten

• needn't, didn't

• battle, plan

Choose the words or phrases where lateral plosion is observed:

• badly, middle

• on the right, old lady

• table, not large

• standard lamp, comfortable

The basic meaning of the Falling tone is:

• completeness and definiteness

• incompleteness

• implication

• contrast and emphasis

Choose the nuclear tone which is typically used to exress the reference to the preceding idea:

• The Falling Nuclear Tone

• The Rising Nuclear Tone

• The Falling-Rising Nuclear Tone

• The Rising-Falling Nuclear Tone

Choose the utterance where a 'not-low ending' Falling tone is used in a non-final intonation group.

• 'Once or 'twice a `week | we 'go to the `pictures.

• The 'train 'leaves at `nine | so we have 'little time `left.

• The 'weather is getting `colder, | and it's 'not very 'pleasant to •go `out.

Finish the list:

The Low Rise is typically pronounced in grammatically incomplete parts of utterances, such as principal clauses that are incomplete in meaning, ..., ..., ... .

Choose the nuclear tone that can be used in non-final intonation groups:

• the Low Rising

• The Falling

• The Falling-Rising

• all the above

Unstressed syllables following the stressed one are called...

• enclitics

• proclitics

• stressed syllables

• polysyllabic

Choose a suitable tone in the underlined part of the utterance:

In front of the house there is a green garden.

• High Rise

• Low Rise

• Fall

• Fall-Rise