Phonetics Final
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Matching dialects and suprasegmental definitions
Questions and Answers
- 1.Variation in speech and language patterns across groups of people
- A.
Rhythm
- B.
Intonation
- C.
Dialects
- 2.Chain shifts, mergers, and r-production are what?
- A.
Linguistic factors for American English
- B.
Boundaries of a dialect
- C.
Elements of intonation
- 3.Geography, immigration routes, language contact, settlement patterns are what factors?
- A.
Ways speech and language parameters are changing
- B.
Sociohistoric factors of a regional dialect
- C.
Linguistic factors or American English
- 4.What is not an aspect of dialect?
- A.
Morphosyntax and phonology
- B.
Pragmatics and semantics
- C.
Articulation and prosody
- 5.Syntactic marker, sentence type, expresses emotion, marks new information, and marks important information are elements of what?
- A.
Intonation
- B.
Stress
- C.
Rhythm
- 6.A pattern of pitch across a phrase of utterance
- A.
Rhythm
- B.
Intonation
- C.
Tempo
- 7.Pitch, intensity, duration, sound quality, and pause/tempo are elements of
- A.
Tempo
- B.
Intonation
- C.
Stress
- 8.This is not created by a single mechanism. It varies according to idiolect, dialect, or communicative setting.
- A.
Prosody
- B.
Linguistic stress
- C.
Lexical tone
- 9.The distribution of various levels or stress across a syllable chain (languages differ in it's characteristics)
- A.
Rhythm
- B.
Tempo
- C.
Final juncture
- 10.Pause, Final syllable/ phrase lengthening, and speaking rate are all parts of
- A.
Paralinguistics
- B.
Rhythm
- C.
Tempo
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