Re: TEI element for a grapheme?

Hi Emmanuelle,

It sounds like what you mean by grapheme might be what I understand by 
phoneme, so I would guess that the usage of these terms in your field 
differs from what I'm used to.

Cheers,
Martin

On 2016-09-27 09:38 AM, Emmanuelle Morlock wrote:
> 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,
>>>
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