Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>
> 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.

SOME SORT OF CORRESPONDENCE. That's all. Since the term was invented for
Korean (by Sampson), that's where you should look for the prototype.

It also applies to Bell's Visible Speech.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...