graphemic, a. and n. Linguistics.
(grəˈfiːmɪk)
[f. grapheme + -ic.]
A. adj. Of or relating to graphemes. B. n. pl. graphemics. The study of systems of written symbols (letters, etc.) in their relation to spoken languages.
| 1951 Stockwell & Barritt (title) Some Old English graphemic-phonemic correspondences. 1951 E. Pulgram in Word VII. 19 It is precisely that parallelism of phonemics and graphemics which renders feasible a phonemic transcription. 1953 J. B. Carroll Stud. of Lang. ii. 13 This branch of linguistics has been termed graphemics by some linguists, and graphonomy by others. 1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. 442 Graphemic symbols are enclosed in angle marks (〈〉). 1964 R. A. Hall Introductory Linguistics xliv. (heading) Graphemics. |
Hence graˈphemically adv.
| 1956 Trans. Philol. Soc. 50 Graphemically irrelevant variations in the shape of p. 1964 Language XL. 167 One-syllable words, graphemically defined, have the same part-of-speech assignments. |