____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?

Related Mcqs:

1. ________ 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.

2. ________________is the totality of the speech habits of an individual?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

3. The study of elementary speech sounds is called________?

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

4. ____________________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

5. _________ is the process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another ?

   A. Onomatopoeia
   B. Assimilation
   C. Regression
   D. Progression

6. 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.

7. __________________________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

8. ______________is concerned with the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language?

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

9. 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.

10. The term________________refers to omissions of certain sounds, syllables or even words in continuous speech?

    A. Alliteration
    B. Assonance
    C. Elision
    D. None of the above