Pharyngeal related non-lexical vowels in Sephardic Modern Hebrew

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Publication date 2010
Journal Linguistics in Amsterdam
Volume | Issue number 3 | 1
Pages (from-to) 1
Number of pages 19
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  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
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.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/aclc/03/nr01/a01
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