Intonation

207. Where is the focus /the semantic center of an unmarked/normal utterance located on?

208. What is the force component of intonation made by?

209. Which tone can encourage further conversation, be wondering, mildly puzzled, soothing?

210. One or more words closely connected by sense and grammar, but containing only one strongly stressed syllable and being pronounced in one breath are called a...

211. Which tone is highly implicatory in English?

212. Spoken English is divided into chunks of talk or...

213. Because they are unstressed in the stream of speech, function words exhibit various forms of...

214. What words are accentuated by pitch, length, loudness or a combination of these prosodic features under normal, or unmarked conditions?

215. What is the core component of intonation?

216. How many rhythmic groups/feet are there in "Thank you for the present'?

217. What tone expresses the speaker's active searching for information?

218. This part of an intonation group determines the semantic value of the intonation group, and indicates the communicative centre of the intonation group or of the whole sentence.

219. Which of the head patterns is used for normal speech?

220. Where is the semantic centre of an utterance in normal speech located on?

221. What are the emphatic tones?

222. What part of the intonation group goes before the nucleus?

223. What is the corresponding tone for each of these types of the utterances? (Request, Order, Exclamation, Statement)

224. What is the corresponding tone to each of these questions? (General, Special, Disjunctive, Alternative)

225. What forms are usually unstressed in the sentence?

226. The type of theutterance stress that is used to arrange words into sentences or intonation groups phonetically. Together with grammatical and lexical means it expresses the general idea of the sentence and indicates its communicative center. The nuclear syllable is generally associated with the last content word of the intonation group.

227. The type of utterance stress, which gives special prominence to a new element in a sentence or an intonation group.

228. This type of sentence stress increases the effort of expression. It may strengthen the stressed word making it still prominent. This stress manifests itself mainly on the High Fall or the Rise-Fall of the nuclear syllable.

229. The part of intonation group formed by stressed and unstressed syllables beginning with the first stressed syllable is called…

230. The part of intonation group that includes unstressed and half stressed syllables before the first stressed syllable.

231. The last stressed syllable of the intonation group in which the pitch movement changes. It is usually of a highest importance: it is on this syllable that the whole pitch pattern centers.

232. The unstressed and half-stressed syllables that follow the nucleus in the intonation group are called…

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