BS EnglishELL-103: Introduction to Language Studies

The basic difference between pictogram and Ideogram is that Pictogram is represented through:
1. Concrete symbols
2. More Abstract form
3. More Picture-like form
4. Idioms
A key property of ___________ is that they do not represent words or sounds in a particular language.
1. Pictograms
2. Ideograms
3. Both Pictograms and Ideograms
4. Logograms
The representation ‘9’ is an example of:
1. Pictograph
2. Logograph
3. Ideogram
4. Homograph
The representation ‘@’ is an example of:
1. Pictogram
2. Ideogram
3. Logogram
4. Homogram
The representation ' will spk 2 u 2nite' is an example of:
1. Pictographic writing
2. Logographic writing
3. Ideographic wrinting
4. Rebus principle
Modern Japenese roughly comes under the category of _________.
1. Pictographic writing
2. Logographic writing
3. Rebus Principle
4. Syllabary
The Arabic language uses:
1. Syllabic Writing
2. Consonantal Alphabet System
3. Vowel Alphabet System
4. Logographic Writing
The writing system developed by a Cherokee named Sequoyah in eighteenth century was an example of:
1. Logographic Writng
2. Rebus Principle
3. Syllabic Writing
4. Alphabetic Writing
In principle, __________ is a set of written symbols, each one representing a single type of sound or phoneme
1. A syllable
2. A language
3. An alphabet
4. None of the above
In English language a single phoneme is actually represented by more than one letter or different spellings. The reason behind this is that English language has:
1. No Spelling system
2. Borrowed words
3. Written form
4. Symbolic representation

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BS English
ELL-103: Introduction to Language Studies