[b-hebrew] Was Schewa really silent?

K Randolph kwrandolph at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 15:38:41 EDT 2007


I wonder who IF is listening to, because when I hear "pencil", I hear a
short, unstressed "i" sound, not even a shewa.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 9/19/07, biblical hebrew <jcr.bhebrew at gmail.com> wrote:
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> IF:To convince myself that something indeed hides between the 's' and
> the 'l' of pensəl I would have to record the word, pass it through an
> oscilloscope, observe the Fourier wave decomposition of each of its
> components and analyze its frequency and amplitude content.
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> JCR: Or you could just explain to me what difference you hear between the
> 's' and the 'l' of 'slate' with those of 'pencil'. I suspect that you can
> hear this difference but that you just believe it to be a 'tiny gap'.
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> James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science
> http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       Thesis 1 - Aleppo codex machine
> translation
> http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  Thesis 2 - language acquisition
> simulation
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