On 11/12/2001 07:56:41 PM Michael Everson wrote:

>At 00:25 +0100 2001-11-13, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
>>Right. So being a phonetic alphabet is not enough to make a system
>>featural? There has to be correspondences between graphical shapes and
>>general aspects of the sounds referred to?
>
>I should think so.

But what is the nature of the correspondences? That is the aspect of
"featural" that I have not seen clearly explained, and I would really like
to know what people are meaning when they say that.



- Peter


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