grapheme
/ˈɡrafiːm
/noun Linguistics
The smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system. Compare with phoneme.Then, beginning readers learn to parse the printed word into graphemes and subsequently assign phonemes to the different graphemes....
- There were more deviations from the normal pattern in the pointed experiment, where dyslexies had to process both graphemes and diacritic signs than in the nonpointed experiment.
- Alternatively, the graphemes can be synthesized and mapped onto complete orthographic lexical representations.
Derivatives
graphematic
graphemic
- Those authors presented words in a study phase, accompanied by one of three types of questions, about the graphemic, phonemic or semantic properties of the word.
- Selecting the correct word requires the user to attend to the specific/unique characteristics (e.g., phonemic, graphemic, morphemic) of the word among other, similar sounding and looking words.
- Our reasoning was that the passive condition ensured that the children received visual / graphemic and phonological input exactly at the same time, which might be important for forming the relevant associations.
graphemically
- In Experiment 1, the preview of target characters consisted of targets or of graphemically similar, homophonic, or dissimilar characters.
- All graphemically similar probe words and targets differed by only one letter.
- In this sense, in modern English a "b" is graphemically distinct from a "c", because by substituting one for the other we can move from "bat" to "cat".
graphemics
- The sixteen articles are organized into sections on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, historical/comparative linguistics, and graphemics.
- Furthermore, it is possible to search the corpus according to different beginning graphemics of the words.
- This paper will address the relationship between 'school orthography' and graphemics.
Origin
1930s: from graph2 + -eme.