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单词 allograph
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Definition of allograph in English:

allograph

noun ˈaləɡrɑːfˈæləˌɡræf
Linguistics
  • 1Each of two or more alternative forms of a letter of an alphabet or other grapheme, for example the capital, lower case, italic, and various handwritten forms of a letter.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sign names and values with modifiers and/or allographs following them should not be be treated as compounds.
    • Often only some of the codes of an allograph to be recognized correspond to a sequence of codes from the dictionary, and the allograph is not recognized with certainty.
    • Yet there is another level of meaning that changes with each allograph, an esthetic meaning that we cannot avoid.
    • This paper presents an original method for creating allograph models and recognizing them within cursive handwriting.
    • In Old English, the characters we call eth and thorn are not graphemically distinct: they are allographs which vary freely.
    1. 1.1Phonetics Each of two or more letters or letter combinations representing a single phoneme in different words. Allographs of the phoneme /f/ include the (f) of ‘fake’ and the (ph) of ‘phase’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition, because a letter may appear in allographs which encode respectively different phonemes, the user is taught alternative sounds that the selected letter may represent.

Derivatives

  • allographic

  • adjective
    • And this is one of the distinctive features of the allographic arts.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We are running a project to assess (cognitively and functionally) the reading and writing of healthy individuals and an allographic dysgraphic patient, PP, who fails to maintain case whilst writing and is insensitive to mixed case when reading.
      • But little work has been done at the allographic level, which is the level of a truly useful sign list, nor at the graphic level, the level at which the identifying characteristics of individual scribes are to be found.
      • In other words, to count as an instance of an allographic work, a performance has to take into account performance practice relevant to the period.
      • Such technique of, we could say, cloning could be accounted for in Goodman's terms as transforming the art of painting from singular to multiple and yet without changing it from autographic to allographic.

Origin

1950s: from allo- 'other, different' + grapheme.

 
 

Definition of allograph in US English:

allograph

nounˈæləˌɡræfˈaləˌɡraf
Linguistics
  • 1Each of two or more alternative forms of a letter of an alphabet or other grapheme. The capital, lowercase, italic, and various handwritten forms of the letter A are allographs.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet there is another level of meaning that changes with each allograph, an esthetic meaning that we cannot avoid.
    • Sign names and values with modifiers and/or allographs following them should not be be treated as compounds.
    • In Old English, the characters we call eth and thorn are not graphemically distinct: they are allographs which vary freely.
    • This paper presents an original method for creating allograph models and recognizing them within cursive handwriting.
    • Often only some of the codes of an allograph to be recognized correspond to a sequence of codes from the dictionary, and the allograph is not recognized with certainty.
    1. 1.1Phonetics Each of two or more letters or letter combinations representing a single phoneme in different words. Allographs of the phoneme /f/ include the (f) of “fake” and the (ph) of “phase.”.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition, because a letter may appear in allographs which encode respectively different phonemes, the user is taught alternative sounds that the selected letter may represent.

Origin

1950s: from allo- ‘other, different’ + grapheme.

 
 
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