You might want to look at the post titled gemination and fusion of teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Congenitally Missing Permanent Teeth] Reference
Sometimes teeth can try and split into two teeth, that's called "gemination". From Wordnik.com. [Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth] Reference
A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may li. From Wordnik.com. [My suspicion regarding the source of *r2 in Pre-Altaic seems to be confirmed] Reference
Tooth gemination and fusion is one kind of tooth abnormality. From Wordnik.com. [Gemination and Fusion of teeth] Reference
Both gemination and creaky phonation are a form of fortition. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may lie with Slavic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Here is an photo showing partial-gemination of a baby lateral incisor. From Wordnik.com. [Gemination and Fusion of teeth] Reference
My 18 month-old seems to have gemination in several of his front teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Gemination and Fusion of teeth] Reference
I see gemination in kids with no health disorders or problems all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Gemination and Fusion of teeth] Reference
For one thing, this gemination idea seems to me like multiplication of hypotheses. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
Paleoglot: A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may lie with Slavic skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may lie with Slavic] Reference
Rob: "For one thing, this gemination idea seems to me like multiplication of hypotheses.". From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
So far, I'm thinking that gemination was merely an allophonic variation of non-geminated phonemes. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
But neither is gemination - your comparision points from Danish involve a preceding stressed vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
I've also thought of a good reason why secondary stress would be insufficient in explaining this gemination. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Can you explain what linguistic processes require that stress be a factor in gemination or laryngealization?. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
Tropylium: "But neither is gemination - your comparision points from Danish involve a preceding stressed vowel.". From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
Concerning gemination and its purported association to stress, consider Old English wēstenne 'desert dat.sg.' creaky. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
In the rule I'm now proposing for Pre-IE, I suggest that this same gemination occurs, but only in unstressed syllables. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
Maybe so, but the example shows that gemination may occur in unstressed positions while stressed positions may avoid it. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
The reduction or deletion of a word-final vowel with simultaneous gemination of the preceding consonant is commonplace e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
If the gemination is compensatory lengthening which I'd expect it to be, reduction and gemination were in fact simultaneous. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
Tropylium: "Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction.". From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
The mess with early gemination that I've been previously speaking about has oddly enough led me down a new quest: Proto-Kartvelian PK loans. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The gemination would require a preceding unstressed vowel and it would also require that the vowel after the consonant be a supershort schwa. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
I'd suggest direct insertion of a glottal stop, rather than gemination, except that's not really a process associated with an unstressed position. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
An inconvenience about taking your precedents from Germanic is that the origins of stød & gemination are far from clear-cut, and intertwined with PIE itself. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
I've never seen Japanese described as an example of this kind of compensatory gemination after all, the coda consonant /N/ is moraic, but rather as an example of vowel devoicing. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
Hints of gemination were visible when I first looked at it in August. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
The gemination of a canal is a phenomenon individual to the particular canal. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Indeed, we are here very much in the dark, certainly very far off from what does take place in Martian canal gemination. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Without gemination, no voicing!. From Wordnik.com. [Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing] Reference
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