Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>]

> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:20:06 
> Subject: b-hebrew digest: August 22, 1998
> To: "b-hebrew digest recipients" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> From: "Biblical Hebrew digest" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

> Subject: BH, accents, summary
> From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:27:34 -0400 (EDT)

> also re pause. I'm developing a new rigorous phonology based on (a)
> the actual system (not Qimhi; cf Goerwitz's work) and (b) the new
> optimality approach to phonology. on this view---are you ready?--
> the pausal forms are faithful outputs and the contextual forms are
> *derived* by refooting. I love turnings things on their heads!

But generative prosodic analyses of Hebrew have pretty much followed
that approach all along; certainly I've been taking the pausal stress
positions as synchronically primary (less derived) in my own
dissertation...

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       % Henry Churchyard      http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/