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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Prepositive accents repeated on the tone syllable
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:33:06 -0700

According to GKC 15l, "In many MSS as well as in Baer's editions of the text" postpositive and prepositive accents are repeated on the tone syllable, to mark the accent. But in BHS and the Snaith edition this happens regularly only with the postpositive pashta, and very occasionally with telisha qetanna and with tsinnor/zarqa, but never, at least in BHS with the prepositive accents. GKC gives only one example with a prepositive accent, a telisha gedola.

What I am wanting to discover is how a prepositive accent is positioned when it is repeated on the tone syllable. Is it positioned well over to the right, as is commonly the actual prepositive accent, or centred and perhaps to the left of a vowel, like most other accents? What happens when the tone syllable is the first syllable? Is the accent ever written twice on the same syllable? Or is this repetition of the accent so rare, with prepositive accents, that it can be ignored?

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  • [b-hebrew] Prepositive accents repeated on the tone syllable, Peter Kirk, 09/08/2003

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