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Suprasegmentals

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are segmental phonemes

a)

Consonants

b)

vowels

c)

consonants and vowels

d)

stress

2.

Mark the primary stress in the given word

a)

Nov’ember

b)

’November

c)

No’vember

d)

Novem’ber

3.

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

a)

stress

b)

word stress

c)

sentence stress

d)

sentential stress

4.

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

a)

stress

b)

pitch

c)

intonation

d)

juncture

5.

Put it

­d

­ o

­ w

– n !

is an example of .....

a)

Falling tone

b)

Rising tone

c)

Fall rise

d)

Rise fall

6.

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

a)

Tone

b)

stress

c)

elision

d)

pitch

7.

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

a)

Stress languages

b)

Tonelanguages

c)

Pitch languages

d)

intonation languages

8.

The diacritic to indicate that a segment is long

a)

...

b)

:

c)

;

d)

+

9.

Suprasegmental segments include

a)

pitch

b)

loudness

c)

length

d)

intonation

10.

If Rhythm: Stress then Intonation: (a)  

11.

The number of stressed syllables in five, six, seven, eight

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

12.

English is a

a)

Stress-timed language

b)

Syllable-timed laguage