Stress Placement as a Morphological and Semantic Marker in Israeli Hebrew
It is shown that in Israeli Hebrew, as well as in biblical Hebrew, the location of stress may have a "phonemic" function, in that it distinguishes between otherwise identical morpho-phonological patterns. Stress location can determine syntactic, temporal, and similar categorial differences...
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Language: | English |
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The National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2000
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2000, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-82 |
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Summary: | It is shown that in Israeli Hebrew, as well as in biblical Hebrew, the location of stress may have a "phonemic" function, in that it distinguishes between otherwise identical morpho-phonological patterns. Stress location can determine syntactic, temporal, and similar categorial differences as well as semantic nuances., This study presents a general description of 'mobile' versus 'fixed' stress in Israeli Hebrew followed by a brief discussion of stress as tense marker in biblical Hebrew, and by a more detailed examination of three instances in Israeli Hebrew in which stress has a phonemic function: the maCCuC pattern versus the identical native Hebrew pattern; the non-ultimately-stressed 'Yiddish/ English type' +er versus ultimately-stressed 'French type' +ér/ +(y)onér; and +i versus related +ai among gentilic nouns and residents of geographical places. |
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ISSN: | 2158-1681 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2000.0053 |