Jason,
Arab diction has its peculiarities which are of no concern to Hebrew.
There is a universally natural doubling of a consonant located
between two vowels, for instance DIBBER, 'he spoke', but this has
nothing to do with the dagesh in the B. There is no indication that
an exaggerated, over-natural, doubling, say DIB---BER, was ever
practiced in Hebrew.
I think that the purpose of the dagesh in B of DBR is only to
indicate the lack of the preceding vowel I.
Notice that no doubling may occur in DIBRAH, 'she spoke'.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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