EDU 201 Chapter 3 Quiz

When symbols come to stand for ideas corresponding to individual words and each word is represented by a separate symbol, the result is ideographic (logographic) writing.

• True

• False

_____ represents sound rather than meaning.

• Phonogram

• Syllabary

• ideographic

_____ writing, the basis of our own and indeed of all alphabetic writing, usually represented consonants only.

• Semitic

• Phonogram

• Logographic

The Slavic alphabet is called ______ from the Greek missionary leader Cyril.

• Cyrillic

• Umlaut

• Trigraph

Digraphs are pairs of letters representing single sounds.

• True

• False

Other symbols have sometimes been added to the Roman alphabet by those who adopted it.

• True

• False

For the vowel sound of cat, Old English used the digraph ae, later written prevailingly as ligatured ae, the symbol used for the same sound in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association.

• True

• False

The English runic alphabet is sometimes called futhorc.

• True

• False

Old English manuscripts are in a script called the _____ hand.

• Insular

• Ash

• Thorn

Many literate people suppose that writing is more important than speech and that the letters of the alphabet have fixed sounds.

• True

• False