Theterm onomatopoeic is used todescribe
the physiological adaptation of humans forlanguage
wordsthat (are believed to) echo natural sounds
the basis of the oral-gesturesource
theepisode in the Bible that speaks of the origin oflanguage
Ancientcavedrawings
are precursors of writing
are early examples oflogograms
prove that writing existed before spokenlanguage
arethe oldest forms of writing
Theability of humanlanguage to refer to things not present in theimmediateenvironment iscalled
duality
discreteness
displacement
diversity
Very young children living without access to human language in their early years grow up with
no language at all
one language
more than one language
at least two languages
2 - is a way of writing in which each symbol represents a syllable----
Syllabic writing
Ideographic writing
Logographic writing
Rebus writing
3 - When the vocal cords are drawn together, produced sounds are described as
voiceless
voiced
aspirated
unaspirated
1 - The initial sounds in the words tip, dip, zoo, so and nut are all
a - alveolars
b - velars
c - fricatives
d - voiced
2 - The initial consonant in this is a
a - voiceless dental stop
b - voiced dental stop
c - voiceless dental fricative
d - voiced dental fricative
3 - Eponyms are new words based on the name
a - of a person or a place
b - of a scientist
c - of kings
d - of actors
4 - Words such as butter (N) and butter (V) belong to the word-formation process known as
a - clipping
b - compounding
c - backformation
d - conversion