| 31. | In gemination, an initial consonant was geminated by a preceding word originally ending in, or after a vowel.
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| 32. | Nasser categorizes variant readings into various subtypes, including internal vowels, long vowels, gemination ( shaddah ), alternation.
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| 33. | When morphological processes require this, the gemination is dropped and the syllable is inserted, which can then be prenasalised.
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| 34. | Occasionally, gemination may also result from a loss of a vowel after u0 ( " fu " ).
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| 35. | In particular, the gemination of consonants other than the liquids and nasals is " generally considered affected or pedantic ".
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| 36. | Gemination was lost in Standard Modern Greek, so that all consonants that used to be geminated are pronounced as singletons.
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| 37. | "Syntactic " means that gemination spans word boundaries, as opposed to the ordinary geminated consonants : " grappa ".
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| 38. | Sometimes gemination ( i . e . the doubling of consonants or vowels ) is considered to be a form of reduplication.
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| 39. | Nouns are marked as definite with the prefix / ha-/ followed by gemination of the initial consonant of the noun.
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| 40. | The phoneme h and the gemination of m do not exist in Greek so it has disappeared from John's uses.
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