Featural

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to features. not-comparable

    "As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996)."

  2. 2
    Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to. not-comparable

    "As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell."

Example

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"As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996)."

Etymology

From feature + -al.

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