George Yule Part 1

1. The term onomatopoeic is used to describe …

	words that (are believed to) echo natural sounds
	the basis of the oral-gesture source
	the physiological adaptation of humans for language
	the episode in the Bible that speaks of the origin of language

 

2. The vocal chords are situated in …

	the human brain
	the larynx
	the mouth
	the pharynx

 

3. The function of language to pass on information is called …

	transactional
	interactional
	international
	translational

 

4. The merit of the yo-heave-ho theory is that it …

	is less speculative than other theories
	places the development of language in a social context
	helps rediscover the original language
	considers the laterilisation of the brain

 

5. The main problem when dealing with the theories of the origin of human language is that …

	there are so many
	they are contradictory
	they try to disprove the Bible
	there is no evidence to prove them right

 

6. The term lateralised is used to say that the human brain …

	is highly analytic
	is big enough to have developed language
	is both interactional and transactional
	has two hemispheres

 

7. The oldest cave drawings are about …

	200,000 years old
	20,000 years old
	2,000 years old
	200 years old

 

8. Ancient cave drawings …

	are the oldest forms of writing
	are precursors of writing
	are early examples of logograms
	prove that writing existed before spoken language

 

9. The … writing system is an example of cuneiform writing.

	Egyptian
	Chinese
	Sumerian
	Greek

 

10. Ideograms are …

	as abstract as pictograms
	more abstract than pictograms
	less abstract than pictograms
	not abstract at all

 

11. In … writing, the symbol of one entity is also used to refer to the sound of that entity in other contexts.

	hieroglyphic
	cuneiform
	syllabic
	Rebus

 

12. Cyrillic writing is …

	alphabetic
	syllabic
	cuneiform
	based on pictograms

 

13. The spelling of written English was largely fixed …

	in the Roman period
	after the Battle of Hastings
	at the time of the invention of printing
	after the First World War

 

14. Communicative signals, as opposed to informative signals, …

	only occur in human language
	are sent intentionally
	are non-verbal
	are not very complex

 

15. The ability of human language to refer to things not present in the immediate environment is called …

	discreteness
	diversity
	duality
	displacement

 

16. The relationship between linguistic form and meaning is …

	arbitrary
	informative
	non-directional
	onomatopoeic

 

17. … has the longest continuous history of use as a writing system.

	Egyptian
	Chinese
	Greek
	English

 

18. In logograms, the relationship between the symbol and what is represents is …

	arbitrary
	easily recognisable
	lateralised
	wedge-shaped

 

19. The chimpanzee has … of its basic genetics in common with humans.

	10%
	33%
	50%
	99%

 

20. Noam Chomsky …

	carried out unsuccessful experiments with chimpanzees
	was proved wrong by Terrace\\\\\\\’s experiments with a chimpanzee
	claims that language is an innate ability unique to humans
	was the name given by Terrace to one of his chimpanzees