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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:57:59 -0700
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] pre-exilic(?) Hebrew a CV-beat language.
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Dear Garth:
On 8/20/07, Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
What Peter Bekins is saying mirrors the conclusions I've been reaching recently: i.e. that Semitic (and pre-exilic Hebrew) was made up of CV- segments, pronounced on a beat.
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Love from Garth.
Hold on to that for a second. Do you mean all of Biblical Hebrew, or
only the poetic sections?
I noticed that the poetic sections, for example Isaiah is mostly
written in poetic beat, reading the text pronouncing all (or almost
all) syllables as CV usually gives a definite beat.
But then I look at examples like Genesis 1?2:4, and that is prose;
other than a few verses, there's no beat at all. You can try using the
Tiberian tradition, and again no beat. If you say that some consonants
may close a syllable, while others not, maybe you could tease a beat
out of that chapter, but which consonants may close a syllable (have a
null vowel) and which require an expressed following vowel?
I am not arguing against your proposal, merely asking for more clarification.
Karl W. Randolph.
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