gemination

Noun

Meaning

A doubling; duplication; repetition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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this kind of duplication is wasteful Source: Internet

All of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination. Source: Internet

Consonant length (gemination) is also phonemic. Source: Internet

But gemination does occur between words. Source: Internet

However, syllables can be analyzed as compositions of long and short phonemes, as in Finnish and Japanese, where consonant gemination and vowel length are independent. Source: Internet

In Aramaic and Hebrew, all non-emphatic stops occurring singly after a vowel were softened to fricatives, leading to an alternation that was often later phonemicized as a result of the loss of gemination. Source: Internet

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