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  • From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: dresher AT chass.utoronto.ca (E. Dresher), idsardi AT chass.utoronto.ca (William Idsardi), jrevell1 AT compuserve.com, richard_goerwitz AT brown.edu
  • Subject: pronoun att(a) in pause
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:36:41 -0400 (EDT)


some curiosities with 2s pronouns (picked them because of three
variants of attah).

raw numbers
2ms 744: )F^T.FH 54 (7.3%), )A^T.FH 26 (3.5%), )AT.F^H 664 (89.2%)
2fs 57: )FT.: 7 (12.3%), )AT.: 50 (87.7%)

2fs a little off, but if combined, barely shifts the 7% major pause
number. in any case, quite a bit less than 20% pausals (as often
cited).

but notice pausal forms by the accents of the 21 prose books:

D0f DO D1f D1 D2

)F^T.FH 16 19 0 0 0
)FT.: 2 4 0 0 0
)A^T.FH 0 0 5 15 3

these numbers approximate henry's stats nicely 64% d0, 31.2% d1, 4.7%
d2
but that's not what interests me: it's the distrubtion of major pause.
on this basis we can say major pause is tied to the halfverses,
period. very nice.

cheers
V
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  • pronoun att(a) in pause, Vincent DeCaen, 09/07/1999

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