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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Segholate: a call for discussion
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:01:27 +0300

The below is a short summary of the hypothesis


calav - ca.lA.vu (1) - calAbbu (2) - cA.labb (unstressed final vowel lost) -
cEi.labb (3) - cEil(e)bb - c(e)l(e)bI (4) - calbI or sifrI - calb or sifr. At
the same time, cEil(e)bb - calb (5).



Notes:



1. The hypothesis is that all Hebrew nouns had penultimate stress (just like
Germanic initial-stress-derived nouns). Morphological stress moved one vowel
back to compensate for syntactical stress accompanying the nouns.



2. Consonant doubling occurs cross-linguistically to close an otherwise open
stressed syllable with simple sound (a, i, u)



3. When consonant doubling is not an option (in the present case, it would
have created callabb, unpronounceable), a stressed simple vowel in an open
syllable is elongated to composite. Thus davar - doivar.

A composite stressed vowel in otherwise open syllable is closed with its
second sound (tzere ae closes with iud, holam au should have closed with
shuruk).



4. Stressed suffix reduces a vowel to schwa mobile. Thus, cl(e)bbI - calbi or
sifri



5. Composite vowels in super-heavy CVCC syllables shorten to component sounds
(ae - i or a), as in itlabesh - itlabasht.





Vadim Cherny



  • [b-hebrew] Segholate: a call for discussion, Vadim Cherny, 10/23/2004

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