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Phonemic Awareness Studies 1970s

Contributors:

Cynthia Boles

Deborah Louie

Suzanne Pfeiffer

The following definition is provided by Wikipedia:

In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. Graphemes include letters, Chinese characters, Japanese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and other glyphs.

In a phonological orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme. In spelling systems that are non-phonemic — such as the spellings used most widely for written English — multiple graphemes may represent a single phoneme. These are called digraphs (two graphemes for a single phoneme) and trigraphs (three graphemes). For example, the word ship contains four graphemes (s, h, i, and p) but only three phonemes, because sh is a digraph.

Supplemental information can be found at the following links:

phonemes

Reference

Wikipedia. Retrieved February 15, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme.