Fundamentals of Linguistics _ Lecture 1

How many origins of languages were mentioned in the lecture?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

What is the origin of language related to God?

• The divine source

• The natural sound source

• The musical source

• The social interaction source

 Newborn babies can manipulate and recognize intonation.

 Infants’ ability to create melody develops before other aspects of language.

• The musical source

• The physical adaption source

• The genetic source

• The tool-making source

one _____ for one word or morpheme.

• logogram/logograph

• syllabogram

• alphabetic symbol

one symbol ( (a)   ) for one syllable

For Alphabetic writing, one symbol for one _______.

• morpheme

• phoneme

• syllable

English belongs to the _________.

• the Indo-European

  family

• the Austro-Asiatic family

• the Afro-Asiatic family

• the Niger-Congo