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gemination::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | duplication |
| Type of | copying |
gemination::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | repetition |
| Derivation | geminate |
Examples of gemination
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The second is predictive gemination of initial consonants on morpheme boundaries.
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When I sow basil, for example, I plant five or six seeds to insure good gemination.
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As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic.
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Historically, morpheme-boundary gemination is the result of regressive assimilation.
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Gemination is distinct from stress and may appear independently of it.
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Ganda is unusual in that gemination can occur word-initially, as well as word-medially.
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It seems to depend on gemination, but it has apparently not been systematically investigated.
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The reverse of gemination is the process in which a long consonant is reduced to a short one.
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Class-one verbs with short roots exhibit gemination of the final stem consonant in certain forms.
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- The doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
- Duplication: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
- (geminate) a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate"
- (geminate) pair: occur in pairs
- In phonetics, gemination happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short consonant.
- The phenomenon of gemination arises when two teeth develop from one tooth bud and, as a result, the patient has an extra tooth, in contrast to fusion, where the patient would appear to be missing one tooth. ...
- (geminated) Lengthened (said of consonants), or doubled. Geminated consonants are unknown in English, but appear in many other languages, like Italian (written as double consonants: pizza, otto, Massimo, doppo).
- Describes the rare event where one tooth twins or divides to become two teeth. Opposite to fusion.
- A single tooth bud that divides and forms two teeth.
