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featural

adj

Etymology

From feature + -al.

  1. inherited from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from faciō — “do, make”
  3. derived from factus
  4. derived from factūra
  5. derived from faiture
  6. derived from feture
  7. inherited from feture
  8. suffixed as featural — “feature + al”

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to features.

    • 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).

  2. Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the…

    Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.

    • 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.
    • Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system.
    • The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for featural. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA