Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre aspectos linguísticos | linguistic aspects em inglês

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Q4071943 Inglês
Language and culture are related because:
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Q4069054 Inglês
Choose the alternative that presents words with the same pronunciation sound.
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Q4050520 Inglês
 A fonética e a fonologia da língua inglesa tratam da produção e organização dos sons, incluindo a tonicidade das palavras e os padrões de entonação. Acerca deste tema, registre V, para as afirmativas verdadeiras, e F, para as falsas:
(__) O fonema presente em "think," é uma fricativa dental desvocalizada (voiceless), enquanto o fonema presente em "this," é uma fricativa dental vocalizada (voiced).
(__) O fenômeno do "schwa" é o som vocálico mais frequente em inglês, ocorrendo exclusivamente em sílabas tônicas para garantir a clareza da pronúncia acadêmica.
(__) A entonação descendente (falling intonation) é o padrão típico de perguntas interrogativas iniciadas por pronomes "wh-" (quem, onde, por que), em contextos neutros.
(__) Palavras heterônimas, como "record" (substantivo) e "record" (verbo), diferenciam-se fonologicamente pela posição do acento tônico, que recai na primeira e na segunda sílaba, respectivamente.

Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA dos itens acima, de cima para baixo: 
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Q4046855 Inglês

Consider the sentences below:



I. I hired a maid last week.


II. I made my own boat.



The words in bold are:

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Q4046848 Inglês
Mark the alternative that does have words that have the same sound in the pronunciation.
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Q4028362 Inglês
Brazilian learners of English often transfer pronunciation patterns from Portuguese. One common difficulty involves the pronunciation of the letter “h,” which in English usually represents the sound /h/ (as in house) at the beginning of words. Which word illustrates this pronunciation? 
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Q4028361 Inglês
In English, the past tense ending -ed may be pronounced /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/.
Identify the group of verbs in which the -ed ending is pronounced /t/. 
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Q4028350 Inglês
In English pronunciation, the letter “g” may have two different sounds. For example, it has a hard sound /g/ in go and a soft sound /dʒ/ in giant.
Identify the group in which the letter “g” is pronounced with the soft sound /dʒ/.
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Q4024012 Inglês
The divergence between spoken and written English is characterized by differences in lexical density, clausal complexity, and the use of deictic expressions. Based on the linguistic features of "Spoken Grammar" as described in corpus-based studies, choose the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4024010 Inglês
Cohesion in English is achieved through grammatical and lexical devices, as categorized in the seminal work by Halliday and Hasan. Regarding the use of substitution and ellipsis as cohesive mechanisms in discourse, mark T for True or F for False:

(__) Substitution involves the replacement of one linguistic item by another, such as using "one" to replace a previously mentioned noun.
(__) Ellipsis can be defined as "substitution by zero," where a clause or part of it is omitted because it is understood from the context.
(__) Lexical cohesion is strictly limited to the repetition of the exact same word throughout a paragraph to maintain thematic unity.
(__) Anaphoric reference occurs when a pronoun refers forward to a noun that will only be introduced in the subsequent chapter of the book.

After analysis, choose the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence:
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Q4020431 Inglês
The phonological system of English involves distinctions related to sound production, stress patterns, and pronunciation rules. Considering these aspects, mark the CORRECT alternative. 
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Q4020424 Inglês
Stylistics deals with the variation in language use according to context, purpose, and audience. Mark the CORRECT alternative.
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Q4015241 Inglês
Consider the sentences below:

I. My youngest daughter is one year old.
II. My team won its first major championship.

The words one and won are:
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Q4012174 Inglês
A teacher designs a listening test with speakers from Nigeria, India, Scotland and Singapore to reflect international use of English. Mark the CORRECT statement about English as a lingua franca in classroom listening. 
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Q4004154 Inglês
In the cartoon in Question 3, there are some rhyming words in English: I / tonight / mind. Choose the correct alternative which all the underlined letters have the same pronunciation.
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Q3989984 Inglês

In English pronunciation, the definite article “the” has two possible pronunciations:



• It is pronounced /ðə/ (“thuh”) before consonant sounds.


• It is pronounced /ðiː/ (“thee”) before vowel sounds.



Choose the alternative in which “the” must be pronounced /ðiː/ in all the expressions below. 

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Q3989982 Inglês

In the Simple Past tense, the ending -ed can be pronounced as /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/.



Choose the alternative in which all the verbs have their -ed ending pronounced as /t/.

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Q3989707 Inglês
Choose the alternative that does NOT have words that have the same sound in the pronunciation.
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Q3955808 Inglês
The (IPA) International Phonetic Association was founded in 1886. This association’s mission is to “promote the scientific study of phonetics”. The terms: /ˈteɪ.bəl/ - /əˈplen.ti/ - /ɡreɪs/ - /smuːð// are the phonetic transcriptions of the respectively words: 
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Q3928967 Inglês
In the study of truth-conditional semantics, the relationship between two propositions can be defined by the notion of entailment. Consider the following sentences:
1. Julian managed to renovate the old Victorian mansion.
2. Julian renovated the old Victorian mansion.
Based on the semantic properties of the verb "manage", it is correct to assert that:
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21: C
22: A
23: C
24: D
25: D
26: A
27: A
28: A
29: B
30: C
31: B
32: D
33: B
34: B
35: D
36: A
37: D
38: C
39: D
40: B