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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] CV syllables, was music in Hebrew
  • Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:21:12 +0000

On 04/02/2006 20:20, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

... It would be like me saying "heard" and "erred" the
same and you understanding me due to context and accent.
It doesn't meant that "h" falls off the beginning of "heard." A
"similar but not the same" pronounciation of Modern Hebrew
is simply a wrong pronounciation. ...

This is a bad analogy, because in many dialects of English "heard" and "erred" are pronounced essentially the same because word initial "h" is dropped, whereas (if I understand you correctly) there are no dialects of modern Hebrew in which word final het is silent.

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Peter Kirk
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