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Stress and vocalic change in Hebrew: a diachronic study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

J. C. L. Gibson
J. C. L. Gibson
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Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh 1
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1. Three stages of Hebrew are covered by the enquiry:

(a) a Proto-Hebrew stage (= PH), when I assume Hebrew to have conformed to the language structure of the common Northwest Semitic of the second millennium B.C. Its lineaments can be recovered by a backward reconstruction from the following stage controlled by comparison with the surviving second millennium dialects, Amorite (see Gelb, 1958), Ugaritic (see Gordon, 1955) and Tell el-Amarna Canaanite (see Dhorme, 1951). The theory that Northwest Semitic at this early period was more or less a unity and that a division into Aramaic and Canaanite sub-groupings can be safely carried through only after about 1000 B.C. is now generally accepted; see Moscati, 1956; Garbini, 1960.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1966 , pp. 35 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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