These
subtypes are closely related to grapheme-colour synesthesia.
MILLION (lexeme)
MILLIONS (lexeme + morpheme)
MILLIONAIRE (lexeme + morpheme)
MULTIMILLIONAIRE (morpheme
+ lexeme + morpheme)
Some cases of grapheme-colour synesthesia are actually lexeme-colour and morpheme-colour: the synesthete in question perceives the root or lexeme of the word as having one colour and the morpheme (the suffix, for example) as having another. According to the study "Multicolored words: Uncovering the relationship between reading mechanisms and synesthesia" (L. J. Blazej and A.M. Cohen-Goldberg, Tufts University, 2015), 14% of people who have grapheme-colour synesthesia might actually have this type.
In any case, when a synesthete perceives or associates
colours with letters or words the general term “grapheme-colour synesthesia” is
normally used, rather than the more specific terms phoneme-colour, lexeme-colour
or morpheme-colour.
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