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Of or pertaining to features. / (linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.

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not-comparable

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特徴に関する / 特徴を表す、または符号化する（特に音韻特徴を記号化する書記体系に関して）

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The linguist emphasized the featural differences between the dialects during her presentation.

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その言語学者は発表で方言間の特徴に基づく違いを強調した。

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Of or pertaining to features.

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).

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(linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.

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.

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