История письма и чтения. Асафова Г.К. - 22 стр.

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Syllabary n.

Слоговая азбука

Syllabic adj.

Силлабический, слоговой

Unvocalized adj.

Безгласные

Ex. 1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is a definition of a universal human competence?

2. How is speech acquired by people?

3. How is writing acquired by people?

4. Which appeared earlier: writing or speaking?

5. What was the culmination of a long evolution of writing?

6. What is efficiency of writing based on?

7. How many and which stages did Ignace Gelb distinguish in the evolution of

writing?

8. What was the greatest achievement of Western culture?

9. How was the first alphabet invented and by whom?

10. How did the alphabet come to be used for the expression of a great many

functions of speech?

11. Is it difficult to master writing?

12. What possibilities does the alphabet give to the reader?

13. What does the efficiency of a writing system depend on?

14. What do notions of explicitness depend on?

15. Which languages do not use the alphabetic system of writing and why?

16. How do the modern historians of writing treat the existing orthographies?

17. Why is it unlikely that writing was invented only once and was borrowed by

different cultural groups?

18. How many histories of writing are recognised now?