Practical Phonetics Test 1 2 year 1 term

Variations of pitch, loudness, length, tempo and timbre of the voice

• information

• intonation

• intention

A piece of utterance, a continuous stream of sounds, bounded by a fairly perceptible pause

• intonation group

• packaging the information

• utterance

A stretch of speech separated from other similar units by clear pauses.

• intonation group

• prepositional or adverbial phrase

• utterance

Marks the limits of the utterances and parts of utterances in the speech flow

• accentual function

• delimiting function

• attitudinal (emotional) function

Helps organize speech into units that are easier to perceive and memorize

• psychological function

• accentual function

• grammatical function

We make the important words in the utterance stand out

• by making a sound or word last longer

• by making a sound or word louder

• by saying a sound or word shorter and quieter

• by saying a sound or word in a different pitch

When we want to emphasise words in order to draw particular attention to them, we can

• put them into longer speech units

• put them into very short speech units

Prominence given to a syllable in a word is called

• word stress

• syllable stress

• utterance stress

Stressing words in an utterance depends very much on the context, this is

• rhythmic factor

• semantic factor

• prosodic factor

The tendency to place the nuclear stress in a content word in utterance final position is

• distribution of stress factor

• rhythmic factor

• polysyllabic factor