Gemination is common in many languages. They include Finnish, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese and Swedish. Though it is not part of Standard English, it occurs in varieties of Welsh English.
In Welsh English, gemination occurs after a stressed vowel. Not all consonants are lengthened equally. In comparison to their single counterparts, sonorants are lengthened the most followed by plosives and fricatives.
The following words have geminates in many varieties of Welsh English:
bubble
common
dinner
luggage
medal
money
pretty
puppet
rocket
seven
Though gemination is not associated with Standard English, it occurs across word boundaries in words such as bookkeeper and irregular. However, gemination is not phonemic in English. In many varieties of Welsh English, gemination occurs intervocalically between a stressed vowel and an unstressed one. Gemination is a feature which is associated with Welsh English.
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