Intonation

1. The head of a tone unit can contain both stressed and unstressed syllables.

True

False

2. There is only one tone unit in one sentence.

True

False

3. The nucleus can be placed at any stressed syllable.

True

False

4. In the glide down, unstressed syllables in the tail are lower than the nucleus

True

False

5. In the glide down, unstressed syllables in the tail are at the same pitch level as the nucleus

True

False

6. In the glide up, unstressed syllables in the tail are as low as the nucleus

True

False

7. In the glide down, all the stressed syllables before the nucleus are at the same pitch level

True

False

8. The tail of a tone unit contains only unstressed syllables.

True

False

9. In the glide up, the tonic syllable is very low.

True

False

10. In the glide up, stressed syllables in the tail are always higher than unstressed syllables.

True

False

11. We always use the glide down for statements

True

False

12. We use the glide up for tag questions if we want the other person to agree with us

True

False