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?

You'll have to check with Sampson, but I think he was noting the
iconicity.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...