Glossary: grapheme-phoneme correspondence
Explanation
The links between letters, or combinations of letters (graphemes) and the speech sounds (phonemes) that they represent.
In the English writing system, graphemes may correspond to different phonemes in different words.
- The grapheme s corresponds to the phoneme /s/ in the word see, but…
- …it corresponds to the phoneme /z/ in the word easy.
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