MCQ Bank
The references to assumed shared worlds outside the text are called _________.
- A) exophoric
- B) cataphoric
- C) endophoric
- D) anaphoric
Syllables which stand out in the flow of talk are uttered with a relatively ________ intensity.
- A) greater
- B) similar
- C) smaller
- D) equal
Stress on a word, phrase or sentence is called_________ level stress.
- A) secondary
- B) segment
- C) primary
- D) sentence
The units of sound in a language that differentiate one word from another are called___________.
- A) alphabets
- B) phonemes
- C) letters
- D) component
The end of each intonation unit is marked with a ___________.
- A) semi-colon
- B) hash
- C) colon
- D) full stop
Georg von Wright was a _________.
- A) poet
- B) philosopher
- C) novelist
- D) scientist
Rose is a _________ of flower.
- A) hypotonia
- B) hyponasty
- C) hypoderma
- D) hyponym
Qualifying a clause with some circumstantial feature of time, place, cause or condition is called its___________.
- A) conjunction
- B) enhancement
- C) extension
- D) elaboration
Generally, intonation units __________ with a pitch boundary.
- A) end
- B) middle
- C) join
- D) start
The general words, which correspond to major classes of lexical items, are very commonly used with _________ force.
- A) adhesive
- B) active
- C) cohesive
- D) passive
We create ‘rhythm’ in spoken language on the basis of ________.
- A) rhyming
- B) pitch
- C) sound
- D) stress
The stress on a syllable within a word is called _________ stress.
- A) semantic
- B) lexical
- C) morphological
- D) pragmatic
Who introduced the concept of discourse-organizing words?
- A) McCarthy and Carter
- B) Carter and Chomsky
- C) McCarthy and Chomsky
- D) Chomsky and Hymes
Who divided modalities into those that contain an element of will and those that contain no element of will?
- A) Frank Palmer
- B) Michael Halliday
- C) Otto Jesperson
- D) Rosamund Moon
An intonation unit is a _________ of speech.
- A) segment
- B) feature
- C) type
- D) property
The study of phonemes and their articulation is called _________ level.
- A) intonation
- B) introductory
- C) experiential
- D) segmental
When we listen to a stretch of spoken English discourse, we often feel that there is a/an _________ to it.
- A) humor
- B) alliteration
- C) assonance
- D) rhythm
Henry bought himself a new Jaguar. He practically lives in the car.” Here, the car is a __________ of Jaguar.
- A) hypoordinate
- B) subordinate
- C) superordinate
- D) inordinate
Generally, intonation units include ________ pitch word(s).
- A) four
- B) two
- C) one
- D) three
Who proposed that the logical treatment of modalities is too narrow, because it is centered on truth values of propositions.
- A) Winter and Törrönen
- B) Sulkunen and Törrönen
- C) Sulkunen and Winter
- D) Törrönen and McCarthy