For
the purposes of this list, it would suffice if you would show where
Richard Steiner, a very important scholar in the field of Semitic
phonology and author of "Ancient Hebrew" , in Robert Hetzron's
"The Semitic Languages," errs when he writes:
"Seven of the Proto-Semitic fricatives were lost by merger at various
times: the interdentals ... t_' (>s'), ... the laterals l~' (> s') ..." (p. 147)
In the above quote, s' represents an emphatic s (S with a dot or an
apostrophe), whereas t_' represents an emphatic th (T with an underline
and a dot underneath), and l~' represents an emphatic lateral (L with a
squiggly line in the middle and a dot underneath). Please provide
references in academic literature to substantiate your point about this
grave error.
Yitzhak Sapir
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