This can be seen as a typical morphophonemic process, whereby one sound takes on a characteristic of a neighboring sound. One of the characteristics of the lamed is that it is a "continuant;" the fricative kaf thus is extending the continuant characteristic of the lamed. This is the most observable phenomenon in language. What Rolf is dubbing a "voiced" kaf is actually a "stop" or what phonologists call a [ -continuant ] (the lamed is a [ +continuant ]). Whatever one thinks about the masoretic pointing, linguists have and continue to show that their phonology is consistent with that of all languages. That is, the Tiberian system was a real-world spoken language. I recommend everyone on this list pick up some beginning linguistics books such as: Phonological Analysis, a Functional Approach, by Donald A. Burquest. (see p.3 for the above argument). On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:00 AM, b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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