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- Title
GEMINATION OF /R/ IN SAMARITAN HEBREW: A NOTE ON PHONOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD HEBREW.
- Authors
Stadel, Christian
- Abstract
In Jewish traditions of Biblical Hebrew, /r/ behaves like laryngeals and pharyngeals in that it resists gemination. Evidence from Septuagint transcriptions suggests that this lack of gemination is a late phenomenon of the post-biblical period. The Samaritan pronunciation tradition, on the other hand, attests to /rr/ in scores of forms. We offer the first comprehensive study of geminated /r/ in Samaritan Hebrew. A comparison with other traditions of Hebrew and with transcriptions allows for a fine-graded assessment of the phenomenon. It suggests that--apart from some instances of secondary development--/rr/ in Samaritan Hebrew essentially preserves an ancient trait that goes back to the biblical period. Thus, geminated /r/ represents one of the few cases in which Samaritan Hebrew is typologically older than the Tiberian tradition.
- Subjects
GEMINATION; SAMARITAN Hebrew language; HEBREW language; LARYNGEALS (Phonetics); BIBLICAL language &; style; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Hebrew Studies, 2017, Vol 58, p221
- ISSN
0146-4094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hbr.2017.0010