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Journal of Semitic Studies 2005 50(2):321-327; doi:10.1093/jss/fgi040
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© The University of Manchester 2005. All rights reserved

On the Distribution of Major and Minor Pause in Tiberian Hebrew in the Light of the Variants of the Second Person Independent Pronouns*

Vincent DeCaen

University of Toronto

This paper establishes for the first time the nature and distribution of Tiberian Hebrew (TH) pausal phonology. The results are consistent with the proposal by Dresher (1994) that TH pause is a direct function of intonational phrase boundaries. His prosodic analysis is extended here by establishing the half-verse as the maximal prosodic domain for TH phonology. It is on this basis that we can explain the statistical distribution of pause at syntactic and accentual phrase boundaries, extending the first approximation of the syntactic projection of TH pause delineated in Revell (1980). The results reported here define a long-term research programme in TH prosody.


* This study originates in post-doctoral research conducted in 1998 under the supervision of Professor E. Dresher, Linguistics Department, University of Toronto. I take this opportunity to thank him again for his continued supervision of and encouragement in my phonological studies.


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