Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

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> * Lars Marius Garshol
> |
> | 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?
>
> * Peter T. Daniels
> |
> | 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?

They are both open classes. There could be correlations between subsets
of them.

> | 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
>
> Thank you! I'm off to Amazon.com now to have a closer look.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...