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ROA 1069-0210

Pharyngeal related non-lexical vowels in Sephardic Modern Hebrew

Itsik Pariente <itsik5 at yahoo.com>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1069


Abstract:
This paper examines non-lexical vowels in Sephardic Modern
Hebrew. It is argued that two kinds of vowel, which are
triggered by the pharyngeal consonants, should be identified:
(a) true epenthetic vowels that emerge on the surface to
repair illicit (marked) syllable structures. (b) 'Echo-vowels'
that are created by overlapping a vowel and a pharyngeal
consonant. These vowels do not repair illicit syllable structures
, but rather ease the perception of clusters containing
a pharyngeal. These vowels are not syllabic and phonological
processes ignore them.


Comments: Published at Linguistics in Amsterdam
Keywords: Epenthesis, Vowel Intrusion, Hebrew
Areas: Phonology
Type: Journal Article

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1069