Stress in nominal wordforms of Modern Hebrew (MH) is described via formal rules that, based on the morphological structure of a wordform, assign stress to it. A morphological description of MH nominal wordforms is supplied. All nominal suffixes of MH are divided into strong(= attracting stress), weak (= not admitting stress) and neutral ( = not attracting but admitting stress) ones; then the dominant morphs are defined as including stressed stems and strong suffixes, all the other morphs being recessive. Stress assignment is done (roughly) according to the following principle: If the wordform contains dominant morphs, stress the rightmost of them; otherwise stress the rightmost morph. The paper contains a complete list of MH nominal suffixes (including all those of possessive forms), supplied with relevant morphological information, and a short illustrative list of nominal stems, so that the rules can be checked by an interested reader.Stress assignment in Biblical Hebrew is described in Rappaport (1984); this dissertation was, however, unavailable to us and we know it only through the presentation in Halle and Vergnaud (1987: 63-69). Stress assignment in MH is Brought to you by | Nanyang Technological University Authenticated Download Date | 6/12/15 11:22 PM 157Phonetically, stress in MH is determined by intensity, length, and pitch: a stressed vowel /V/ is much more intense, longer and higher than an unstressed /V/ (Enoch 1967). Each wordform has one and only one stressed syllable. 2Stress Assignment Rules: Their Input and OutputThe paper offers a set of formal (i.e. rigorous and explicit) rules: STRESS ASSIGNMENT RULES, or SA-rules, for Modern Hebrew. • The SA-rules receive as their INPUT a pair of objects: 1) The CATEGORIAL DESCRIPTION of an inflected nominal wordform w-what is called in the Meaning-Text theory its Deep-Morphological Representation [= DMorphR(w)]; technically, a DMorphR(w) is the name of the corresponding lexeme supplied with the necessary grammemes (= values of inflectional morphological categories), e.g.: SUS sg, constr, 2sg.fem : the noun SUS

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