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Question 4

Appeared in Year: 2021

Question MCQ▾

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) , carry Two mark each (for each wrong answer: )

Sign languages have long been used by the deaf communities to communicate amongst themselves. Which of the following is correct?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Signs in sign languages are dominantly iconic and transparent with respect to the meaning they encode.

b.

Children who are hearing-impaired do not converge on a language without instruction in signing and/or speaking

c.

Sign language shows duality of patterning with meaningless gestures combining to create single sign.

d.

Sign languages are pidgin like, rudimentary communication systems

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Question 5

Appeared in Year: 2021

Question MCQ▾

Multiple Select Question (MSQ) , carry One mark each (no negative marks)

Three different ways of writing a single word in the Mayan script are given below. The glyphs (i-ii) are of a single word [ba՚lam] meaning ‘jaguar.’ What can we conclude about the Mayan writing system from the examples provided?

Three Different Ways of Writing a Single Word

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The glyphs use the rebus principle, part sound part meaning

b.

The glyphs can be logograms, mean whole words

c.

The glyphs can be alphabetic, Spelling out sounds

d.

The glyphs can be syllabic

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