featural

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English

Etymology

From feature +‎ -al.

Adjective

featural (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to features.
    • 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
      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. (linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
    • 2015, Robert Koehler et al., Hangeul: Korea's Unique Alphabet, Seoul Selection:
      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.
    • 1997, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, University of Hawai'i Press, page 184:
      Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system.
    • 1995, Roy Harris, Signs of Writing, Psychology Press, page 58:
      The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system .

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