...A grapheme (from the , gráphō, "write") is a fundamental unit in a written language. Examples of graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems, although arguably a diacritical mark or ancillary glyph does not constitute a grapheme. Read full entry
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- 1.Grapheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A grapheme (from the Greek: γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a fundamental unit in a written language. ... phonemic orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme. ...
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- 2.grapheme: Definition from Answers.com
- grapheme ( ) n. A letter of an alphabet. All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f
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A phoneme is an atom of pronounced language. A grapheme is an atom of written language. For example, there's a phoneme called the "voiceless velar plosive" that initiates the English words "catch" and "king". It's IPA symbol is [k]. As a different example, there's a Latin-alphabetical grapheme called "c" that initiates the English words "chariot" and "ceiling". |
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Is the one-phoneme, With modern computers you can
associate as many phonemes to
graphemes as you want.
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Well, I've never really heard of the one-phoneme, one-grapheme theory before. Because, well, in English, we don't write all of our words phonemically, therefore we have can have several different graphemes represent a single phoneme. So yeah, based on that, I'd say it's history. But also, you're right- with the proliferation of modern computers, I'd say the world is at the beginning of a major evolution in how we use language and communicate- because, never before, has the human race been able to disseminate written communication so instantaneously. |
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Does anyone have or does Please explain what it is to
me. I looked it up and still
am a little confused about it.
Thanks. =)
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Oh, yay! This is SOOO interesting to me. I looked it up too, a while ago. Basically synesthesia in general is when two normally-separate parts of your brain are linked together in some way, so that two modes of perception are combined. Grapheme-color synesthesia means the color-perception part of your brain and the number/letter-perception part of your brain are linked. So whenever you see letters or numbers or things like that, you see them in certain colors. The same letters/numbers are always the same colors to you, although the colors assigned to each number/letter may be different for another grapheme-color synesthete. The picture I am linking you to explains it well. The part on the left is how you and I would see it. The part on the right is how a grapheme-color synesthete might see it (if their 5's were green and their 2's were red). Cool, huh? It would make spelling so much easier if the words were colored and you could see what colors the word was when it was spelled right. Then if you spelled it wrong, the colors would be different and you could tell it was spelled wrong. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c4tw H_sjx5o/Rx7kUdzn8QI/AAAAAAAAAs k/ZpCLroc7TUI/s400/synesthesia .jpg |
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