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re: Significance of Cantillation

From: "Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: re: Significance of Cantillation
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:39:45 -0800

Gday all,

The following article has some interesting ideas about cantillation:

Lode, Lars. "A Discourse Perspective on the Significance of the
Masoretic Accents." In Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, ed.
Robert D. Bergen. 155-172. Texas: Summer Institute of Linguistics,
1994.

In my research it would seem that there is a strong correlation
between clause boundaries and disjunctive accents, but I think Vince
has already suggested this. Probably nothing new in this observation.

With regards,
Matthew Anstey

re: Significance of Cantillation, Matthew Anstey, 02/03/2000