Re: TEI element for a grapheme?

Thanks Martin,

Yes in my example it's a single grapheme.

But whereas graphemes are the smallest unit in a writing system they can 
be composed of more than one letter. For ex. [o] = o, au, eau in French.
The use case comes from a transliteration of an inscribed text, that's 
why a single glyph drawn on a page or inscribed on a stone, may be 
represented by a combination of letters in a transliteration...

Is it clearer? apologies too for the loose terminology; I'd be glad to 
here more from linguists on that topic. I understand that depending on 
the linguistic school of thoughts the segmentation of a word in 
graphemes might vary....

Would <g type="graphematic">th</g> sound better?

Cheers
Emmanuelle


Le 27/09/2016 à 17:49, Martin Holmes a écrit :
> Hi Emmanuelle,
>
> There's one thing I'm not clear on in your question: my understanding 
> of a grapheme is that it's the smallest unit in a writing system, so 
> I'm not sure what this means:
>
> <g type="grapheme">th</g>
>
> Is there a single grapheme in this particular script (thorn or eth, 
> for instance) which is what you're referencing here? I don't see how a 
> combination of two glyphs (apologies for loose terminology) can 
> constitute a single grapheme.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 2016-09-27 02:27 AM, Emmanuelle Morlock wrote:
>> Dear TEI list,
>>
>> Which tei element would you use to represent a grapheme (as opposed to a
>> phoneme)?
>>
>> If I get it well, a <fs> would be used for phoneme cf.
>> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/FS.html#FSFL
>>
>> Is using<c> (character) possible when the grapheme is composed of more 1
>> graphic character?
>>
>> For example, if I want to say: "Dupond is reading <th> instead of <b>"
>>
>> - Dupond is reading <g type="grapheme'>th</g> instead of <g
>> type="grapheme'>b</g>
>>
>> - Dupond is reading <c>th</c> instead of <c>b</c>
>>
>> - Dupond is reading <g type="grapheme'>th</d> instead of <c>b</c>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Best,
>>


-- 
Emmanuelle Morlock
IE CNRS - Humanités numériques & TEI
UMR 5189 HISoMA
http://www.hisoma.mom.fr

06 85 84 69 16
@emma_morlock

----------------------------------------------
Membre du comité de coordination d'Humanistica,
    association francophone des Humanités numériques
    <http://www.humanisti.ca>

Page HiSoMA : http://www.hisoma.mom.fr/annuaire/morlock-emmanuelle
Page HAL : https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/emmanuelle-morlock