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Remarks on rhythmic stress in Modern Hebrew1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Shmuel Bolozky
Shmuel Bolozky
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University of Massachusetts
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In Biblical Hebrew, the tendency for rhythmic stress was primarily manifest in stress retraction, which moved word-final stress to the preceding syllable so as to avoid ‘stress clash’ with an immediately following word-initial stress, subject to certain restrictions. It was discussed in detail by the traditional grammarians of Hebrew; recent generative accounts include Prince (1975) and McCarthy (1979). In Modern Hebrew, the tendency for rhythmic stress can be realized in a variety of ways, of which stress retraction is by no means the commonest.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , September 1982 , pp. 275 - 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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