A Grapheme is the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system. A grapheme is an abstraction over a set of like glyphs, the actual images on the page. That is, a particular grapheme is realized by particular glyphs. More than one glyph can realize the same grapheme. For instance, the letter A and its cursive equivalent are each realizations of the grapheme Latin Captial Letter A.
| Properties | Values | Definition |
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acoustic Realization
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Spoken Linguistic Expression | The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding spoken expression. |
constituents
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Thing | The relation holding between a linguistic unit and a list (rdf:Seq) of its constituents. |
has Constituent
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Linguistic Unit | The relation hasConstituent is an abstract partial ordering relation that expresses dominance between two linguistic units. This relation is meant to cover all possible types of linguistic constituency: phonological, morphological, syntactic, etc. constituency. |
in Language
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Human Language Variety | The relation that holds between a LinguisticSign and a Language. The sign is said to be a member or part of that language. |
realization
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Linguistic Expression | The relation holding between a linguistic unit and its physical form, either a spoken, written or signed expression. |
signed Realization
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Signed Linguistic Expression | The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding signed expression. |
string Rep
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string | |
written Realization
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Written Linguistic Expression | The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding written expression. |