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  • From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: tiberian phonology, puzzle for peter
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:51:51 -0400 (EDT)


hey peter,

since you easily grasp the principles of phonological analysis, here's
a teaser to open your mind. ;-)

using standard transcription, and vowels I,",E,A,F,O,U, schwa :

MELEK: "king", P.ESEL "idol"
how many vocalic phonemes (first syllable only!)?

but forms in major pause!?
MELEK: , vs. P.FSEL
how many now?

but closed syllables, unstressed?
MELEK:/MAL:K. vs CEDEQ/CID:Q "righteousness"
P.FSEL/P.IS:L vs )FBEN/)AB:N "stone"
how many now? still just one from *a or *i?

and take a guess which pattern is most common, which least (hint, all
the textbooks take MELEK: as paradigmatic: wrong!).

sholom
V
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