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Geminates

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Geminates 

double consonants.

(1) Consonants in the articulation of which there occurs a delay in breaking (for example, Russian t in ottogo or d in poddal).

(2) Two identical consonants in the body of a word (for example, Russian vanna; French immense; and Italian femmina).
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non-geminated) consonants and those few transcribed with geminates (3 cases) are transcribed as being short geminates.
Prominence and gemination in Ingrian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Gordon, Matthew / Linguistica Uralica
Some spelling variants without geminates (greter, liker) might indicate the preservation of the vowel length of the stem.
"More strenger and mightier": some remarks on double comparison in ... by Wlodarczyk, Matylda / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The author further observes that "[t]he central and southern Italian dialects (including Standard Italian) have both geminates and long vowels.
Doris Borrelli. Raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian. A Synchronic ... by Nuessel, Frank / Italica
 
 
 
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