MCQs Of Linguistics

Q What grammatical element is repeated in the following sentence When I am too tired to get up in the morning when I have forgotten to do my homework when I have nothing to wear I usually ask my mom if I can stay home from school
a) infinitive phrase
b) dependent clause
c) Gerund
d) Independent Clause

Q What grammatical element is contained in the following sentence Running with scissors can cause serious injury
a) infinitive phrase
b) dependent clause
c) gerund phrase
d) Finite Clause

Q The distribution of various levels or stress across a syllable chain languages differ in its characteristics
a) Rhythm
b) Tempo
c) final juncture
d) gerund

Q Chain shifts mergers and r-production are what
a) Linguistic factors for American English
b) Boundaries of a dialect
c) Elements of intonation
d) Non-dialect

Q A pattern of pitch across a phrase of utterance
a) Rhythm
b) Intonation
c) Tempo
d) Dialects

Q What is not an aspect of dialect?
a) Morphosyntax and Phonology
b) Pragmatics and Semantics
c) Articulation and prosody
d) Pragmatics and Articulation

Q This is not created by a single mechanism. It varies according to idiolect dialect or communicative setting
a) Prosody
b) linguistic stress
c) lexical tone
d) Stress

Q Pitch intensity duration sound quality and pause/tempo are elements of
a) Tempo
b) Intonation
c) Stress
d) Prosody

Q Pause, Final syllable/ phrase lengthening, and speaking rate are all parts of
a) Paralinguistic
b) Rhythm
c) Tempo
d) Intonation

Q Syntactic marker, sentence type, expresses emotion, marks new information, and marks important information are elements of what
a) Intonation
b) Stress
c) Rhythm
d) Paralinguistic