Featural
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Featural is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to features.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to features.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
Example Sentences
The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system .
Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system.
As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996).
As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include faunic, figural, feastly, factial, fabular, phenotypical.
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