| 21. | The reverse of gemination is the process in which a long consonant is reduced to a short one.
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| 22. | As the gemination was lost, the use of written double consonants was repurposed to indicate tense sonorants.
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| 23. | There is some dispute about how gemination fits with Japanese geminate ( that is, double ) consonant.
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| 24. | In very early Semitic languages, definiteness was achieved through gemination of the first letter in a word.
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| 25. | However, the phoneme is phonetically except word-initially, in gemination, and after a nasal.
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| 26. | :: We are especially talking about open and closed vowels and syntactic gemination, as I said.
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| 27. | However, it is debated whether the distinction is really a result of different muscular tension and not of gemination.
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| 28. | The consonants / t ? r l n / all exhibit phonemic gemination when two identical ones occur between syllables.
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| 29. | Duration ( or gemination ) is distinctive for both consonants and vowels ( Wondwosen 2006 : 9, 10 ).
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| 30. | The retroflex voiced stops are pronounced as flaps except word-initially, in gemination, and after homorganic nasals.
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