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In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, refers to the importance of certain features in making distinctions in a language. In other words, features with a high functional load distinguish more words from others in a given language; the omission or mishearing of these features leads to more confusion than features with low functional load.

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  • In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, refers to the importance of certain features in making distinctions in a language. In other words, features with a high functional load distinguish more words from others in a given language; the omission or mishearing of these features leads to more confusion than features with low functional load. (en)
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  • In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, refers to the importance of certain features in making distinctions in a language. In other words, features with a high functional load distinguish more words from others in a given language; the omission or mishearing of these features leads to more confusion than features with low functional load. (en)
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  • Functional load (en)
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