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Redundancy in phonology means a repetitive expression of sound units. It involves the myriad of features that differentiate phonemes. The word phoneme relates to the tiniest sound unit. Each phoneme in a language has a unique sound.
- What is a redundant feature?
- What are redundant consonants?
- What is the redundant feature for English vowels?
- What does redundancy mean in linguistics?
What is a redundant feature?
Redundant features are those that are correlated with other features and not relevant in the sense that they do not improve the discriminatory ability of a set of features.
What are redundant consonants?
Pulmonic Consonant Chart
Notice that English has the following redundant consonant letters: x, c, j, q. They do not relate to any particular sound, but instead represent a combination of other sounds.
What is the redundant feature for English vowels?
When a feature value is predictable by rule, it is a redundant feature. Thus nasality is a redundant feature in English vowels, but a non-redundant (distinctive or phonemic) feature for English consonants.
What does redundancy mean in linguistics?
In linguistics, redundancy refers to information that is expressed more than once. Examples of redundancies include multiple agreement features in morphology, multiple features distinguishing phonemes in phonology, or the use of multiple words to express a single idea in rhetoric.
