gemination

NOUN
  1. the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something
    this kind of duplication is wasteful
  2. the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
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How To Use gemination In A Sentence

  • Similarly, under gemination or feature assimilation with a following onset consonant, the breathy voice feature would be lost, assimilating the final C voicing feature to that of the following onset C. PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
  • He also brings up some unexpected intrusions of gemination, asking how it happened that "the Italian word ‘regata’ entered English as ‘regatta’."
  • This item was recorded with gemination, but the precise status of gemination in the language is not easy to determine.
  • Sometimes teeth can try and split into two teeth, that's called "gemination". Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth
  • Rob: "For one thing, this gemination idea seems to me like multiplication of hypotheses. Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
  • In another good example of orthographic gemination, I was just reading something that contained the well-attested spelling ‘dissapointed’, which also seems to partake of the feeling of a zero-sum transfer of doubling.
  • Tropylium: "Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
  • Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction. A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
  • English was first written down phonetically and therefore this little slip of the tongue which is called degemination, technically was written this way to reflect the sound. I am a cat. I can not use this. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The result shows the gemination rate of explant being its stem tip is higher than that of the other parts of the plant.
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