Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Features of Spoken Language Test

1) "Three men in a pub" and "Goin' to the party?" are examples of
  • elision
  • dialect
  • ellipsis
2) "er", "um" and "you know" are examples of
  • prosodic features
  • fillers
  • tag questions
3) Idiolect is
  • the language of fools
  • an individually distinctive style of speaking
  • a collective idiomatic phrase
4) "sort of", "like", "and so on", "or whatever" and "kind of thing" are examples of
  • vague language
  • voiced pauses
  • accent
5) "Back-channelling" is
  • repeating the other talker's words
  • an intrusive medical procedure
  • listener feedback signalling support or understanding
6) "Deixis" is
  • words which point to something 'outside' the text
  • a word which signals a change of subject
  • often misspellt
7) Pitch, pace, stress and rhythm are examples of
  • paralinguistic features
  • accent
  • prosodic features
8) "gonna", "gimme" and "loadsa" are examples of
  • synonyms
  • elision
  • phatic talk
9) "We was going down the road" and "He didn't know nothing" are examples of
  • non-standard grammar
  • poor English
  • transactional language
10) Hesitation, repetition and false starts are examples of
  • paralinguistic features
  • interactional language
  • non-fluency features
11) Question-answer and greeting-return are examples of
  • paralinguistic features
  • transactional language
  • adjacency pairs
12) Phatic talk is
  • stressed or highly intonated words
  • conversation with a derious topic
  • small talk
13) "It's OK here, isn't it?" and "That's cheap, don't you think?" are examples of
  • sibilance
  • tag questions
  • ellipsis
14) Gestures and facial expressions are examples of
  • prosodic features
  • paralinguistic features
  • hypercorrection
15) "Anyway", "so" and "next thing" are examples of
  • discourse markers
  • unvoiced pauses
  • colloquial language
16) Pragmatics is the study of 
  • conversations involving the request for goods or services
  • dialect terms
  • what a speaker means rather than simply the words they say
17) Rather than use the term 'sentences' in describing a stretch of spoken language, we should say
  • turn taking
  • utterance
  • discourse marker







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