Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>
> * william bright
> |
> | in gregg, for example, a short diagonal line is voiceless T, while a long
> | diagonal line is voiced D; and similarly for the voiceless-voiced pair K vs
> | G. but a short horizontal line is N, while a long one is M. See WWS p. 812.
>
> I think see. So they are featural, but there are imperfections in the
> systems.
>
> It's not just having a systematic relation between graphical
> appearance of characters and their phonetic properties that makes a
> script featural, right? There's still some requirement to do with
> features?
>
> BTW, could anyone recommend good introductory books to phonetics and
> linguistics, so that I can learn enough to actually understand this?

Features *are* phonetic properties.

Best single book: Crystal, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

Best linguistics textbook: O'Grady et al. edited by Aronoff et al.

Best author of linguistics books for the general reader: R. L. Trask
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...