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In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme, coined in analogy with phoneme, is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write' and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called … See more
There are two main opposing grapheme concepts.
In the so-called referential conception, graphemes are interpreted as the smallest units of writing that correspond with sounds (more … See moreGraphemes are often notated within angle brackets: ⟨a⟩, ⟨b⟩, etc. This is analogous to both the slash notation (/a/, /b/) used for phonemes and to the square bracket notation used for phonetic transcriptions ([a], [b]). See more
The principal types of graphemes are logograms (more accurately termed morphograms ), which represent words or morphemes (for example Chinese characters, … See more
In the same way that the surface forms of phonemes are speech sounds or phones (and different phones representing the same phoneme are called allophones), the surface forms of … See more
As mentioned in the previous section, in languages that use alphabetic writing systems, many of the graphemes stand in principle for the See more
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