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The sound structure of verb roots in modern Hebrew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

H. Morgenbrod  and
E. Serifi
H. Morgenbrod
Affiliation:
Georgenstr. 80, 8000 Munich 40
E. Serifi
Affiliation:
Georgenstr. 80, 8000 Munich 40
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I. SOUNDS IN MODERN HEBREW Hebrew shorashim – the triliteral roots – have already been analysed from many points of view, for example in Morgenbrod & Serifi (1976, 1977, 1978). The aim of this article is an examination of the sound structure of shorashim.

In general we can divide the consonants which form the shorashim into two different types; concerning (a) the manner of articulation (e.g. plosives, nasals, etc.); and (b) the place of articulation (e.g. bilabials, labiodentals, etc.).

In this study we have concentrated on position of articulation and ignore manner of articulation.

In Figure I the consonants forming the shorashim are related to the different kinds of sounds according to Wendt (1961).

In order to investigate the relationship between the sounds it is convenient to establish so-called compound matrices with a computer. All computation was done by a program in COBOL running on the SIEMENS System 4004. As material for our analysis we took 2443 shorashim from the sources Barkaly (1972) and Even-Shoshan (1972).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 11 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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