Test about Intonation

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Caro Osorio
Quiz by Caro Osorio, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caro Osorio about 8 years ago
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Question 1

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What is Intonation?
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  • Intonation is the melody of the speech.
  • Intonation is the division if spoken material into chunks.
  • Intonation is the combiantion of loudness, pitch and duration.

Question 2

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Intonation is...
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  • Universal
  • Language-specific
  • Partly universal but also partly language-specific.

Question 3

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When talking, the speaker...
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  • First has to decide the tonicity, the tonality and last of all the tone.
  • First has to decide the tonality, the tonicity and last of all the tone.
  • First has to decide the tone, the tonality and last of all the tonicity.

Question 4

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The function of English intonation that helps to show what information in a utterance is new and what is already know is...
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  • The grammatical function
  • The focusing function
  • The indexical function

Question 5

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What is tonality?
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  • The division of the spoken material into chunks.
  • The words on which the speaker focuses the hearer's attention.
  • The pitch movement the speaker is going to associate with tonicity.

Question 6

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The pitch, loudness and speed combined with silence are...
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  • The stress.
  • The tone.
  • The rhythm of the speech.
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