Phonetics II - Unit 3 revision

A stressed syllable with pitch prominence.

Choose all content or lexical words:

• Adverbs

• Articles

• Main verbs

• Auxiliaries

Choose all the function words:

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Conjunctions

• Prepositions

Tonality is the division of speech into ....

Every intonation phrase is associated to an intonation tune.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tick the obligatory sub-unit in an intonation phrase.

• head

• nucleus

• prehead

• tail

Tonicity is the study of the selection of the ....

The nuecleus is usually the ... stressed syllable in an intonation phrase.

• first

• last

Old information is usually found before the nucleus.

• TRUE

• FALSE