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