geminates in English

verb
1
double or repeat (a speech sound).
Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated : ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.

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1. From the Cambridge English Corpus Geminates and partial geminates Circumvent …

2. Unformatted text preview: PHONEMES AND Allophones DISCUSSION PROBLEM Lango 1 1 Make a phonetic chart of all the consonants in the data from the next page 2 This problem deals with the distribution of the sounds p t t k x NOTE The stops but NOT the continuants fricatives and sonorants can all occur as geminates i e pp tt tt kk but no xx 3 ANALYSIS Make a table of just environments for the