Re: About "features"

At 19:29 +0100 2001-11-13, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>Michael Everson wrote:
>> >This could be an understandable usage for the term "featural", but my
>> >understanding is that this is not how the term is used by modern
>> >grammatologists. Otherwise, how would it apply to Hangul?
>>
>> Featurality in Hangul has to do with e.g. the K/G series, where the
>> voicing is indicated by duplication of the horizontal.
>
>I always considered the extra horizontal stroke as a diacritic, similar in
>position and function to the dot inside Hebrew letters. Perhaps I was
>wrong, but is *this* the reason why Hangul is called featural?

To my knowledge.
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