The graphematic hierarchy and the relationship to its phonological counterpart
Recent research suggests that there are building blocks of language that are cross-modality and cross-linguistically available. These building blocks include units such as the syllable, the foot and the word. Furthermore, these units are hierarchically organized. That is, greater units are composed of smaller units of the immediately lower category. Importantly, the graphematic hierarchy and its units are not derived from the phonological hierarchy and its units: they are motivated independently and correspond bidirectionally to their phonological counterparts.
This talk examines some units of the graphematic hierarchy. It will be shown in which ways the graphematic units correspond to their phonological counterparts and to which extend they are independent.