Test on Phonetics 2

What is stress?

• It is the fall of the voice.

• It is the rise of the voice.

• It is the longest pronunciation of a syllable.

• A)    It is the prominence of one syllable than others.

How do you define the English stress?

• It is a musical stress.

• It is a dynamic stress.

• It is a quantitative stress.

• It is a qualitative stress.

What is the place of stress in English?

• It is fixed.

• It is half – fixed.

• It is free.

• It is not free.

How many degrees does English stress have?

• Only one degree

• Only two degrees

• Three degrees

• Four degrees

What does morphological of word stress mean?

• Some parts of speech are stressed.

• Some suffixes are stressed.

• All the words are stressed.

• Some syllables are not stressed.

What functions has word stress?

• morphological function, syntactical function, constitutive function

• constitutive function, distinctive function, recognative function

• stylistic function, distinctive function, recognative function

• constitutive function, distinctive function

Who gives narrow definition of intonation?

• Uzbek linguists

• Russian linguists

• British linguists

• Japanese linguists

What is the definition of intonation according to the narrow definition of intonation?

• It is the stress of one word of a sentence.

• It is the longer pronunciation of a stressed syllable.

• It is the fall or rise of the voice in speech.

• It is pronunciation of the sentence with level tone.

Who gives broad definition to intonation?

• British linguists

• American linguists

• European linguists

• Russian and Uzbek linguists

What functions does intonation carry out?

• Constitutive, delimitative, distinctive and recognitive functions.

• Constitutive and recognitive functions.

• Syntactical and lexical functions.

• It has no functions.