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What I say, basically, is that the Masoretes recorded some instances of
begedkefet (with dagesh kal) more plosified than others (without dagesh). ...
... Yes, I believe that begedkefet with dagesh kal is more of a plosive thanIf you knew anything about phonetics, or had taken any notice of what I wrote before, you would know that a non-aspirated plosives is not "more of a plosive" than an aspirated plosive, but simply a different kind of plosive.
the
same letter stand-alone. No, I don't assume that stand-alone (say,
pronounced in alphabet) begedkefet's are pure fricatives. Quite possibly,
they were aspirated plosives.
...I will accept that in principle a "stop" might "cause" gemination or inhibit fricativisation. But I don't think that is what is happening here. In my opinion and that of most scholars, a dagesh is simply an indication of lack of fricativisation, or of gemination, two features which occur together with intervocalic begadkepat letters.
Right. And if dagesh is a stop, intermission, then it "causes" gemination or
stronger plosification.
I think otherwise mostly because the Slavonic Bible shows no trace of strongThis process created begedkefet pairs.Actually this is indeed not far from my position, although I would
suggest that more of the changes had happened before the Masoretes.
plosives still in the 11th century. Considering the tremendous influence the
Hebrew exerted on Slavic language, Slavonic Bible likely reflected the
current Aramaic pronunciation. ...
...An aspirated plosive is a strict plosive. So you have not answered the question.
Did this loss of aspiration actually happen? Are modern Hebrew
word-initial pe, tav and kaf aspirated or unaspirated? Maybe it depends
on the speakers' former homes.
Both Sephardic and Ashkenazic phonology universally have the dagesh kal
letters as strict plosives.
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in Arabic pe/fe was fricativised in all
positions at some time, so was gimel/jim in most dialects.
The Masoretes and their later interpreters lived in Arabic milieu. The
dagesh kal cannot be explained by natural phonetic processes of speech, as
we see in Arabic. ...
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