Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

just a note. we actually employ a phonetic system with three grades of
pathah posited: front, central and back. we assume the constrast is
nonphonemic and does not appear in the orthography; but it makes for a
clean simple grammar. on this view, back *cannot* be the same as
round, since [back RTR] must be nonround ex hypothesi.

congrats on the phd.
V 
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1

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