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  • From: Henry Churchyard <churchh AT usa.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: churchh AT usa.net
  • Subject: Re: constructs and vowel length
  • Date: 23 Oct 99 15:23:32 MDT



My point in my last posting was that qosht., nerd, and 'ard show
exactly the same behavior as h.es., h.oq, and `am -- qosht. has h.olem
and so does h.oq; nerd has s.ere, and so does h.es.; 'ard has
pathah. in "context" and qames. when pausal, and so does `am. So a
compensatory lengthening explanation wouldn't explain the parallel
vowels in a parallel way.

Syllables which would have main-stress, except that the word in which
they occur has been joined with maqqeph to the following word, differ
both from surface main-stressed syllables, and from syllables which
never would receive main stress. In a true non-word-final unstressed
syllable, an underlying non-low front short vowel would generally
become [i] in a closed syllable, while the same doesn't happen in
syllables which would receive main stress except for maqqeph.


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Henry Churchyard churchh AT usa.net http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/


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