A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Register
D. Slang
Related Mcqs:
- ________________is known as the ‘friendly innkeeper of the town’ ?
A. Stephen
B. Parker J
C. Goodman Parker
D. Stephen J Parker - ________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?
A. Syllable
B. Stress
C. Intonation
D. Pitch. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - The study of elementary speech sounds is called________?
A. Phonology
B. Morphology
C. Syntax
D. Semantics - ____________________are gliding sounds during the articulation of which, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another ?
A. Diphthongs
B. Triphthongs
C. Semi__vowels
D. Minimal pairs - There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?
A. Arbitrariness.
B. Recursiveness
C. Displacement
D. TransferencE. - __________________________is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech?
A. Socio__linguistics
B. Psycho__linguistics
C. Neuron__linguistics
D. Physio –linguistics - ______________is concerned with the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language?
A. Phonology
B. Morphology
C. Semantics
D. Syntax - The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
A. Supra__segmental phonemes
B. Secondary phonemes
C. Prosodic features
D. All the above. - ____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
A. Stress
B. Pitch
C. Intonation
D. JuncturE.
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