Intonation

Length, pitch, and stress are prosodic, or suprasegmental, features

• True

• False

A phonetic feature which depends on how fast the vocal folds vibrate; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone is called

• rhythm

• stress

• pitch

Women and children tend to have higher voices because they have a smaller larynx; as a result, ...

• the vocal folds are shorter and they vibrate faster

• the vocal folds are shorter and they vibrate more slowly

Variation in the pitch of the voice over a group of words (i.e. a tone unit) is called

• rhythm

• intonation

• stress

Boundaries between tone units are NOT marked by

• pitch reset

• lengthening of the final syllable

• lengthening of the initial syllable

The sentence "He's lost his dog" pronounced with falling intonation indicates

• certainty

• uncertainty

• irony

The sentence "He's lost his dog?" pronounced with rising intonation indicates

• certainty and finality

• uncertainty and question

• that you're impressed

To be polite, the sentence "May I ask you a question?" should be pronounced with

• rising intonation

• a fall-rise

• a rise-fall

Wh-questions, e.g. "What do you mean?" are pronounced with

• falling intonation

• rising intonation

• a rise-fall

To sound impressed, the exclamation "How clever she is!" is pronounced with

• a fall-rise

• a rise-fall

• a fall