Illustrate with examples how suprasegmental features can affect meaning.

What are suprasegmental features?（西安外国语学院2006研)

Suprasegmental features（中山大学2005研；南开大学2004研)

______is one of the suprasegmental features.

A．Voicing

B．Stop

C．Deletion

D．Tone

The features which are found over a segment or a sequence of two or more segments are called ________.

A、distinctive features

B、non-distinctive features

C、suprasegmental features

D、free variation

The structure of the sound system involves not only the vowels and consonants --- the segmental features, but also stress and intonation --- the supra-segmental features.()

A 71-year-old grandmother falls halfway down the basement stairs while carrying a laundry basket. She does not lose consciousness, but sits at the bottom of the stairs "gathering her wits" and the scattered laundry. She Halfway does not think she fractured any bones as she can move all her limbs. Her husband, who hears the noise helps her stand up. It is then that she feels a slight pain in her left hip on weight bearing. She limps for the rest of the day. The next morning her husband brings her into their family physician's office where it is noted that she walks with her pelvis tilted as if her left leg is slightly shorter than the right. She still has left hip pain. A plain film is ordered of the left femur from hip to the knee expecting to find which one of the following?

A、Femoral neck fracture with compression

B、Femoral neck fracture with complet displacement

C、A spiral fracture of the femoral shaft

D、A transverse supracondylar fracture

E、An intercondylar fracture

The role played by supranational entities, such as the WTO, ITU and telecoms MOU bodies ______ in and regulating this environment will be examined.

A．following

B．arbitrating

C．synchronizing

D．betraying