Features of Spoken Language Test

1. "Three men in a pub" and "Goin' to the party?" are examples of 

• Elision
• Dialect
• Ellipsis - The omission of part of a word, or of a word or words from a sentence, while still                       making sense

2. "er", "um", "you know" are examples of 

• Prosodic features
• Fillers - A word or expression of little meaning commonly inserted into speech
• Tag questions

3. "Idiolect" is

• The language of fools
• An individually distinctive way of speaking
• A collective idiomatic phrase

4. "Sort of", "like", "and so on", "or whatever", "kind of thing" are examples of 

• Vague language
• Voiced pauses - Words which allow the speaker to pause without giving up their turn
• 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 (paralinguistic features)
• A word which signals a change in subject
• Often misspelt

7. Pitch, pace, stress and rhythm are examples of 

• Paralinguistic features
• Accent 
• Prosodic features 

8. "Gonna", "gimme" and "loadsa" are examples of 

• Synonyms
• Phatic talk 
• Elision - Omission of a sound between two words (combining the end of one word and the                        beginning of the next