Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

dear henry and other masoretes,

if you remember a little back you gave stats on nesiga distribution by
accent, showing that the numbers didn't line up with pausal numbers.
correct.

but now, here's something interesting: i don't know what it means yet.
lesser pausal environments can be found, not sure how to define them
yet, but i can give you examples: e.g., the pausal environment before
ka'asher.

lesser environments
by accent               henry's reported numbers for nesiga

d0      33.3%           32.5%
d1      41.7%           41.4%   
d2+     25%             26.4%   
etc

again, don't know what to make of yet, except that nesiga **is**
pausal, once we understand pause better. ;-)
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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