简答题English intonation has three systemic features: tonality, tonicity and tone. A、正确 B、错误简答题A public speaker tends to pause less frequently to make their message clearer or more emphatic. By contrast, if the speaker is communicating urgency, he may contain more breaks. A、正确 B、错误简答题__________ involves the information focus and the placement of nuclear. A、Tonality B、Tonicity C、Tone D、3-Theory简答题To accent the word fine, we accent its only syllable, and to accent the word never we accent the first syllable. For the word indescribable, we accent the __________ stressed syllable. A、first B、 second C、primary D、secondary简答题Pragmatic reasons for deaccenting the ‘last content word’ involve old or repeated information, namely, words express known or given information. A、正确 B、错误简答题The nucleus, also known as nuclear syllable or tonic syllable, the syllable that bears the nuclear tone (a fall, rise, fall-rise or rise-fall). A、正确 B、错误简答题Stress is being used in a more general way. It refers to the syllable that receives lexical stress. __________, on the other hand, is being used in a more specific way. It is a place where a tonal marker will fall on the lexically stressed syllable. A、Loudness B、 Intensity C、Accent D、Emphasis简答题The first choice a speaker has to make is to divide the utterance into chunks because an intonation pattern is associated with them. According to Wells, these chunks are known as intonation __________. A、phrases B、 utterances C、 sentences D、breaks简答题When every part of an intonation phrase is brought into focus, we have narrow focus. If we focus only on one particular part, we have broad focus. A、正确 B、错误简答题The nucleus is placed by default on the __________ content word in the intonation phrase. A、any B、some C、first D、 last