Redundancy (linguistics)
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In linguistics, a redundancy is information that is expressed more than once.[1][2]
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Examples of redundancies include multiple agreement features in morphology,[1] multiple features distinguishing phonemes in phonology,[2] or the use of multiple words to express a single idea in rhetoric.[1]