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WorksheetsSpoken Language Features Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 16mins
Spoken language can be
Unscripted
Partially Scripted
Scripted
Descripted
The speaker makes a mistake or decides to say something else.
Repair
False start
Insertion
Elision
The speaker contracts going to into 'gonna'.
Repair
False Start
Insertion
Elision
Paralinguistic features include
Pointing
Volume
Nodding
Tone
Slang
Which of the following are non-fluency features?
False Start
Emphatic repetition
Pause filler
Laughter
Discourse particle
Expressions that cannot be understood unless the context of the utterance is known are referred to as...
vague
phatic
deictic
unvoiced
Two-part exchanges that follow a predictable pattern are known as...
adjacency pairs
overlaps
repairs
turn-taking
Which of these terms relates to the vowel sounds in English (tick all that apply)
diphthong
fricative
monophthong
phoneme
plosive
What is a diphthong?
a pure vowel sound
a blend of two vowels together into a new vowel sound
a consonant sound
when you don't pronounce the letter 't'
words/phrases/non-verbal utterances that give feedback to a speaker that the utterance is being followed/understood...
Hedging
Back-Channel
Chack-Banal
Adjacency Pair
Which of the below contains some ellipsis
I wanna see you later (.) please.
Might go later (.) if i feel like it
the party starts in (2.0) 4 hours
I can't help but feel (.) I'm missing out if I don't go
Hedging is
the horticultural feature separating a border of a property
when one avoids a certain topic by repeating voiced pauses like 'err' and 'erm'
words and phrases that soften or weaken the force of an utterance
language that fills time and 'buys' the speaker some thinking time.
What is the tag question in the example below:
P: It's a little bit cold in here, isn't it
it's
there isn't a tag question
isn't it
a little bit cold in here?
In analysis of turn-taking, what might we consider
duration
frequency
interruption
type
A discourse marker is
language that shows we are maintaining social relationships with no real meaning e.g cold isn't it/freezing!
a topic that arises in spoken language that seems to be intellectually deep and meaningful
words like gonna, wanna etc.
words of phrases that signal relationships between utterances and control and steer conversation in a particular direction
How do you distinguish between an overlap and an interruption?
Decide whether it is cooperative or competitive and whether it causes a speaker to switch turns
Look at the vocabulary
Decide if the speakers like each other
Look at the paralinguistic features
Adjusting our speech to match another person is known as...
convergence
divergence
a face-threatening act
back-channeling
'Small talk' and other politeness strategies are usually known as...
phatic expressions
non-fluency features
collocations
slang
Incomplete constructions are so called because:
the subject of the sentence is missing
the object of the sentence is missing
the key word is missing
words or grammatical elements are missing
Non-fluency features in spoken language are:
bad
inevitable
incorrect
correct
What is hedging? Can you give an example?
