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the syntactic edges and pause

From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Cc: dresher AT chass.utoronto.ca (E. Dresher), jrevell1 AT compuserve.com, richard_goerwitz AT brown.edu
Subject: the syntactic edges and pause
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:45:48 -0400 (EDT)

dear henry and other masoretes,

been working on a full theory of the syntactic projection of pausal
phonology. have been keen on identifying the darks (after the spy
satellites called darks in the movie Contact): where pause ought to
be, but the form does not show variation. think we're almost there.

put together a database of 2237 predicted darks. crossclassified them
by accents in the 21 books.

Henry's numbers predicted darks
d0 60.0% 60.8%
d1 31.9% 31.3%
d2 6.4% 6.5%
d3 0.8% 0.8%
conj 0.9% 0.4%

looking better and better! ;-)

cheers
V
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Dr Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
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the syntactic edges and pause, Vincent DeCaen, 09/08/1999