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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] dagesh, gemination, Hannah
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:03:13 -0400

Uri is right, Hebrew speakers may insert an E sound between two consonants, where none exists, but this has nothing to do with the schwa "NA" and schwa "NAX" business. They routinely do it to distinguish between a radical and a pre-positioned letter. For instance, his BE-MITZ, 'in juice', to show that the letter B is not radical, yet $TUYOT, 'nonsense', although the schwa under the $ is "NA".

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 28, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

For instance, he repeats here again that "spoken
Hebrew has has ...no shwa "NA" and no shwa "NAX",..."

How about "Tarnegol?" (rooster); two shwaim follow
each other. The first Nax, quiescent, the second Na,
mobile.

How about "Lekha" (to you S/M}, "Reevim" (Hungry Pl/M)?
- the spoken language is full with such examples.

Of course there is the simple colloquial expression which
I mentioned before on the list:

"Shtuyot Bemitz" (nonsense), another example of these
two types of Shwa in one short phrase.





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