________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Syntax
   D. Semantics

3. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as questions ?

   A. The falling
   B. The rising
   C. The fall__rise
   D. None of the above

4. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements” ?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Edward Sapir
   D. None of the above

5. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?

   A. The falling
   B. The rising
   C. The fall__rise
   D. None of the above

6. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

   A. Both b and c
   B. Diachrony/Synchrony
   C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

7. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

   A. Productivity
   B. Langue
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. Parole

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

8. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

   A. Syntagmatic
   B. Synergy
   C. Performance
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

9. Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita” ?

   A. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
   B. “Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.”
   C. “Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.”
   D. “Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.”

10. How was mystical literature significant ?

    A. Mystical literature suggested the continued link between paganism and Christianity.
    B. Mystical literature prohibited women from writing in the voice of God.
    C. Mystical literature ended the trend of poems in which God was cast as a lover.
    D. Mystical literature provided a place for women to write romantic and religious literature.