Rhythm. Reading check. Phonetics & Phonology II

In what ways is rhythm manifested in our lives?

• Circadian rhythm, tidal rhythm, heartbeat rhythm, iambic rhythm

• Speech rhythm, nature rhythm

• Rhythm in pieces of music

• All of the previous options are correct

English and Spanish share the same rhythm of delivery of speech.

• True

• False

• Partially true

Which suprasegmental features contribute to the rhythmic patterning of the English language?

• Stress and accentuation

• Stress and syllable length

• Stress and pitch height

David Crystal defines rhythm as...

• "The perceived regularity of prominent units in speech"

• "The way in which the peaks of prominence are organized within an utterance"

• "The alternation between stressed and unstressed syllables"

What's the difference between stressed-time rhythm and syllable-timed rhythm?

• A. Their rhythmic patterns

• B. The intervals in which they occur

• C. None of them

• A and B

Does Abercrombie claim that the Rhythm of speech is mainly muscular and produced by chest and abdominal pulses?

• False

• True

• Doesn´t state

According to previous classifications, what kind of language is English?

• A syllable-timed language

• A stressed-time language

• A stress-free language

The unit of rhythm in languages displaying isochrony is

If compared with foot division, the rhythmic group boundary will not normally fall within...

The process of producing unaccented syllables at the beginning of an utterance with greater speed than any unaccented syllable in the following rhythmic groups is known as...