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Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phoneticsEdited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
[Not in series 189] 2014
► pp. 189–202
Graphematics comprises of the theory of writing systems dissociated from the normative aspects of orthography. Neef (2005, 2012) adds the notion of graphematic solution space, the orthographic options available for the words in a language. These options may be different for the words of different sub-lexicons, an issue that calls for a definition of such sub-lexicons. This paper proposes to use the filter approach of Van Heuven, Neijt, & Hijzelendoorn (1994). This paper concludes with critical remarks about Neef ’s assumption of a subset relation between vocabulary levels and the more general claim of the graphematics enterprise that the study of writing systems can escape the norms and conventions of orthography.