At 00:34 +0100 2001-11-13, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>| Features *are* phonetic properties.
>
>That's an incomplete answer. Is the set of features equal to the set
>of phonetic properties, or is it a subset?
It would depend on the writing system in question. "Featural" does
not imply total phonetic accuracy on the part of the script's
devisers. For instance, some of the West African scripts which have
featurality in their glyphs still have no mechanism to represent
vocalic/syllabic tone.
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