Stress placement as a morphological and semantic marker in Israeli Hebrew
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چکیده
It is shown that in Israeli Hebrew, as well as in Biblical Hebrew, the location of stress may have a “phonemic” function, in that it distinguishes between otherwise identical morphophonological patterns. Stress location can determine syntactic, temporal and similar categorial differences as well as semantic nuances. This study presents a general description of ‘mobile’ vs. ‘fixed’ stress in Israeli Hebrew followed by a brief discussion of stress as tense marker in Biblical Hebrew, and by a more detailed examination of three instances in Israeli Hebrew in which stress has a phonemic function: the maCCuC pattern vs. the identical native Hebrew pattern; the non-ultimatelystressed ‘Yiddish/English type’ +er vs. ultimately-stressed ‘French type’ +ér/+(y)onér; and +i vs. related +ai among gentilic nouns and residents of geographical places.
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