The alphabetic letter or letters that correspond to one particular phoneme Examples: The grapheme ´t´ corresponds to the phoneme |t|; the graphemes ´acute;´ and ´s´ correspond to the phoneme |s|; the grapheme ´c´ also corresponds to the phoneme |k|; the grapheme ´ph´ corresponds to the phonemes /f/
anything that functions as a distinct unit within an orthography A grapheme may be a single character, a multigraph, or a diacritic, but in all cases graphemes are defined in relation to the particular orthography
A grapheme is a unit (a letter or letters) of a writing system that represents one phoneme; a single sound that has one phonemic correspondent Example: "sh" in shirt
a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
The alphabetic letter or letters that correspond to one particular phoneme Examples: The grapheme 't' corresponds to the phoneme |t|; the graphemes 'c' and 's' correspond to the phoneme |s|; the grapheme 'c' also corresponds to the phoneme |k|
Term used to designate a unit of a writing system, parallel to phoneme and morpheme, but in practice used as a synonym for letter, diacritic, character or sign
The written symbols for sounds in language; ie letters of the alphabet or a character in picture writing (as in Japanese kange)
A letter of an alphabet, or all of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, such as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme [f] sound As they are graphic representations of phonetic units, graphemes can also be called phonograms
Smallest distinctive written unit in language system McGowan argued that English has one grapheme <s> with a set of allographs, variations of the same abstract common graph, <SssSSs> and different script-S forms
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in English, a grapheme may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh
The basic unit of writing in any language English has 26 graphemes or letters German has 30 Graphemes are indicated by being placed in angle brackets <z>
Basic, minimal unit of writing; usually, letters of the alphabet, but graphemes also include numerals, punctuation marks, and the like
(1) A minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a particular writing system For example, b and d are distinct graphemes in English writing systems because there exist distinct words like big and dig Conversely, a lowercase italiform letter a and a lowercase Roman letter a are not distinct graphemes because no word is distinguished on the basis of these two different forms A grapheme is for a writing system what a phoneme is for a phonology (2) What a user thinks of as a character
A minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a particular writing system For example, b and d are distinct graphemes in English writing systems since there exist distinct words like big and dig Whereas, a and a are not distinct graphemes since no word is distinguished on the basis of these two different forms A grapheme is for a writing system what a phoneme is for a phonology
The alphabetic letter or letters that correspond to one particular phoneme, or sound Examples: The grapheme, or letter, 't' corresponds to the phoneme, or sound, |t|