Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
  • adjective Being or that is a grapheme; being or that is a irreducibly meaningful unit of written language.

Etymologies

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From grapheme and -emic, on the pattern of phonemic.

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Examples

  • Research has also shown that good readers depend very heavily upon the visual information contained in the word for word identification what is commonly called the graphemic information or orthographic information.

    Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • In color-graphemic synesthesia letters or numbers evoke the perception of a specific color for each individual the same number will always evoke the same color.

    Neurologica Blog - Are We All Synesthetes? William Harryman 2009

  • On the Demonstrative Theory it is unclear why this should be so: the spoken utterance demonstrates a vocal pattern, and the written utterance a graphemic pattern.

    Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

  • As far as I know, though, the traditional techniques in this case did not include replacing certain letters with graphemic wildcards.

    Language Log 2009

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