Website definitions of Featural
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"Featural writing system"
a writing system in which phonetic features, rather than phones (sounds), are represented. For example, there might be a symbol to represent the feature bilabial (a sound produced with both lips), a symbol to represent the feature voiced, and a symbol to represent the feature stop. These symbols would be combined to represent the sound [b]. The closest functioning writing system to this is the Korean Hangul, in which many of the strokes making up the symbols represent place or manner of articulation. Some writing systems used for representing signed languages also contain symbols which stand for particular features of signs. In this case, the symbol often visually resembles the feature it represents, such as direction of movement.
SIL International Contributors, "ScriptSource: Featural writing system," accessed September 11, 2023, https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=glossary#featws. [Visit]
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PsychLing Contributors. "Featural." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 30 Aug. 2023, psylng.org/glossary/term/featural. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
PsychLing (2023, August 30). Featural. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/glossary/term/featural
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