Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE?

1. Spoken language originated before written language. ....
2. Children living without access to human speech in early years grow up with no language. ......
3. Onomatopoeic words support the oral gesture hypothesis .......
4. Yo-Heave-Ho hypothesis gives importance to the social origin of language. ..............
5. Glossogenetics is based mostly on the evolution theory. .........
6. Language use is mostly confined to the left side of the human brain. ..........
7. When a symbol refers to a word, we may call it logogram. ........
8. Cuneiform writing was basically logographic writing. ...........
9. Logograms are used in Chinese language. ...............
10. Rebus writing started by using the sound of logograms or ideograms. ......
11. It was the Phoenicians who developed Syllabic writing. ........
12. It was the ancient Greeks who first added vowel letters to the alphabet. .........
13. Human language has no properties of its own when compare to animal language.........
14. Human language is limited by time and space. ........
15. In human languages, there is a natural connection between the sign and its meaning.........
16. Most animal signs have a connection between the message and its signal. ........
17. Human beings can create a sentence that has never been uttered before. .........
18. Human beings cannot create a sentence that they have never heard before. .........
19. Human languages are culturally transmitted........
20. Human sounds and meanings are distinct and independent. .........