Parasitic Metrification in the Modern Hebrew stress system

Bat‐El, Outi

doi:10.1515/tlir.1993.10.3.189

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“…There has not been much research on the intonational phonology of IH in general; on the phrase level (e.g., Amir, Silber-Varod, & Izre'el, 2004;Becker, 2003;Izre'el, Hary, & Rahav, 2001;Laufer, 1987Laufer, , 1996Mixdorff & Amir 2002), and even less research in developmental prosody on the word level (e.g., Ben-David, 2001) and for developmental clinical prosody (e.g., Adi-Bensaid & Bat-El, 2004;Adi-Bensaid, 2006;Frank, 1989;Frank, Bergman, & Tobin, 1987). However, the stress pattern of IH has been relatively well studied (e.g., Bat-El, 1993;Becker, 2003;Berman, 1978;Bolozky, 1978;Falk, 1996;Graf & Ussishkin, 2001;Mel cuk & Podolsky, 1996;Rosén, 1977) and demonstrates that primary stress usually occurs on the final syllable, with secondary stress occurring on alternating syllables to the left. Stress in IH nouns is mostly ultimate or penultimate.…”

Section: Israeli Hebrew (Ih) and Prosodymentioning

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Prosodic analysis is difficult … but worth it: A study in high functioning autism

Green

Tobin

2009

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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This commentary on Peppé (2009) focuses on the methodology used in applying the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) theory and the ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) framework which we have adapted for Israeli Hebrew together with computer programmed scripts. This phonetic and phonological analysis of prosodic features allowed us to describe, compare and contrast the intonation of Hebrew-speaking children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders-High Functioning (ASD-HF) with matched peers who did not display developmental disorders. The data derived from the acoustic analyses and the scripts created for the purpose of our study have led to a better understanding of the prosodic behaviour of individuals with ASD-HF which is now being extended to further research.

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Section: Israeli Hebrew (Ih) and Prosodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Prosodic analysis is difficult … but worth it: A study in high functioning autism

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Tobin

2009

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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“…In contrast, phonological stress is predictable and is assigned, when no lexical properties are specified for stem and/or suffix, to the rightmost accented syllable. Despite these differences, stress in both languages is closely associated with allophonic vowel lengthening (Bat-El, 1993;Becker, 2003).…”

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“…These questions are crucial to both reading theory and practice. As such, the extent to which phonological awareness may be characterized as a mechanical ability and, hence, a universal and language independent construct, as against a concept-based, language-specific linguistic ability is a central question in the psycholinguistics of reading (Byrne & Fielding-Barnsley, 1989, 1993Saiegh-Haddad, 2007a;Swan & Goswami, 1997; Thomas & Senechal, 2004). Understanding the language-specific demands imposed by the properties of a particular language on phonemic awareness, through systematic comparisons of how phonemic awareness, we well as other basic reading requisites, are accomplished in different languages, helps uncover variations in learning-to-read experiences in diverse languages.…”

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Universal and language-specific constraints on phonemic awareness: evidence from Russian–Hebrew bilingual children

2009

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The study tested phonemic awareness in the two languages of Russian (L1)-Hebrew (L2) sequential bilingual children (N = 20) using phoneme deletion tasks where the phoneme to be deleted occurred word initial, word final, as a singleton, or part of a cluster, in long and short words and stressed and unstressed syllables. The experiments were designed to test the effect of four linguistic factors on children's phoneme deletion: phoneme position (initial, final), linguistic context (singleton, cluster), word length and stress. The results indicated that word length and stress confirmed previous findings in other languages demonstrating the universal validity of these factors. However, phoneme position and linguistic context gave rise to novel findings in the languages studied and provided evidence for language-specific effects on phonemic awareness reflecting onset-rime versus bodycoda syllable structure differences. The results are discussed within the framework of universal versus language-specific constraints on phonemic awareness performance in different languages.

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“…Note, however, that this formulation involves syllables (phonological units), while our rules deal with morphs (morphological units). On the whole, however, there seem to be more differences than similarities: thus, Bat-El (1993) does not deal at all with the morphological component of the model, whereas in our approach stress assignment is presented as a morphological operation; Bat-El (1993) considers secondary stress and stress in smixut phrases, while we do not; etc. It is worth mentioning that for parallels in stress assignment in another Semitic language the interested reader might consult some publications on stress assignment in Arabic; see, for example, Angoujard (1986) and Bohas (1986) and the references cited therein.…”

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Stress in Modern Hebrew Nominal Inflection

Mel’čuk¹,

Podolsky²

1996

Theoretical Linguistics

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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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Parasitic Metrification in the Modern Hebrew stress system

Cited by 35 publications

References 5 publications

Prosodic analysis is difficult … but worth it: A study in high functioning autism

Prosodic analysis is difficult … but worth it: A study in high functioning autism

Universal and language-specific constraints on phonemic awareness: evidence from Russian–Hebrew bilingual children

Stress in Modern Hebrew Nominal Inflection

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