Visual Prosody

Evertz, Martin

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“…The concept's further development moved into two separate directions closely linked to the respective grapholinguistic tradition in question: in Anglo-American research on writing systems, the term was largely abandoned, and it is absent in milestone works such as Gelb's (1969) A study of writing and plays a negligible role in modern works such as Rogers (2005) and Sampson (2015). By contrast, in the Germanspeaking tradition, the grapheme quickly advanced to a central subject of discussion when German grapholinguistics flourished in the 1980s and was eventually joined by proposals of other graphematic units such as the graphematic syllable (Fuhrhop & Buchmann, 2009), the graphematic foot (Evertz, 2018), the graphematic word (Fuhrhop, 2008), and the graphematic sentence (Schmidt, 2016).…”

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“…20-25). In the analogical view, specifically in non-linear suprasegmental models such as the one outlined above, the doubling is determined by the structure of the graphematic foot and signifies that the preceding <ö> is associated with only one (instead of two) skeletal positions (Evertz, 2018). Thus, it is the structure of graphematic feet and graphematic syllables in German that conditions the variant <ff>.…”

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The grapheme as a universal basic unit of writing

Meletis

2019

Writing Systems Research

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The grapheme appears to be a central concept of grapholinguistics. However, there is no consensus on how it should be defined. Some use the concept of grapheme in their work but fail to give a definition while others altogether reject it. When the concept is defined, it is interpreted either as a written unit which refers to a phoneme (this is termed the referential view), or as a written unit that is lexically distinctive (analogical view), which is tested via written minimal pairs such as and analogously to phonological minimal pairs which can be used to discover phonemes. A problem of these two views is that they are restricted to alphabets. A universal conception of the grapheme inclusive of all types of writing systems would make possible the uniform description and, consequently, the comparison of diverse writing systems. Such a conception is proposed here: Graphemes are units of writing which are (1) lexically distinctive, (2) have linguistic value (mostly by referring to phonemes, syllables, morphemes, etc.), and are (3) minimal. These criteria are characterised in detail, and examples from writing systems such as Arabic, Chinese, Devanāgarī, German, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, and Thai highlight their cross-linguistic applicability.

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The grapheme as a universal basic unit of writing

Meletis

2019

Writing Systems Research

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Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight

Berg

2021

All Things Morphology

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Areal script form patterns with Chinese characteristics

Myers

2021

WL&L

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It has often been claimed that writing systems have formal grammars structurally analogous to those of spoken and signed phonology. This paper demonstrates one consequence of this analogy for Chinese script and the writing systems that it has influenced: as with phonology, areal script patterns include the borrowing of formal regularities, not just of formal elements or interpretive functions. Whether particular formal Chinese script regularities were borrowed, modified, or ignored also turns out not to depend on functional typology (in morphemic/syllabic Tangut script, moraic Japanese katakana, and featural/phonemic/syllabic Korean hangul) but on the benefits of making the borrowing system visually distinct from Chinese, the relative productivity of the regularities within Chinese character grammar, and the level at which the borrowing takes place.

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Visual Prosody

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The grapheme as a universal basic unit of writing

The grapheme as a universal basic unit of writing

Chapter 7. Major lexical categories and graphemic weight

Areal script form patterns with Chinese characteristics

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