In phonetics ,
gemination or consonant elongation happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than
Kaynak: GeminationWest Germanic
gemination is a sound change that took place in all West Germanic languages , around 300 AD. All single consonants except /
Kaynak: West Germanic geminationTooth
gemination is a dental phenomenon that appears to be two teeth developed from one. There is one main crown with a cleft in it that,
Kaynak: Tooth geminationSyntactic
gemination, or syntactic doubling, is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian and some other Western Romance languages .
Kaynak: Syntactic geminationBoth
gemination and fusion are prevalent in primary dentition, with incisors being more affected. Tooth
gemination , in contrast to fusion,
Kaynak: Tooth fusionAll of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of
gemination. However: The Gallo‒Italic languages have
Kaynak: Romance languagesThis association with longer duration has prompted some to propose a diachronic link between fortis consonants and
gemination Payne | 2006
Kaynak: Fortis and lenisIn such cases, the terms fortis is sometimes used for aspiration or
gemination, while lenis is used for single, tenuous, or voiced stops
Kaynak: Stop consonantor phrase s: that is, elements such as the intensity, pitch, and
gemination of the sounds of a language, as well as the rhythm and
Kaynak: International Phonetic Alphabetgemination dagesh, or דגש כפלן, often referred to as "dagesh forte") may be placed in almost any letter, this indicated a
geminationKaynak: Dagesh The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milan ese Italian are the
gemination of initial consonants
Kaynak: Italian languageIn many Finnish dialects, including that of Helsinki, the
gemination at morpheme boundaries has become more widespread due to the loss of
Kaynak: Finnish phonologyThe West Germanic languages such as English largely lost the alternation because of the effects of the West Germanic
gemination , but the
Kaynak: Sievers' lawOther cases of optional
gemination can be found in words like syllabe ('syllable'), grammaire ('grammar'), and illusion ('illusion').
Kaynak: French phonologyMartinet agrégated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: La
geminationKaynak: André MartinetGemination: As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages ,
gemination is contrastive in Amharic. That is, consonant length can distinguish
Kaynak: Amharic language