Israeli Hebrew morphology

Stress placement as a morphological and semantic marker in Israeli Hebrew

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 Isr...

Typological effects on spelling development: a crosslinguistic study of Hebrew and Dutch.

This study investigates the role of phonological and morphological information in children's developing orthographies in two languages with different linguistic typologies: Hebrew, a Semitic language with a highly synthetic morphology, and Dutch, a Germanic language with a sparse morphology. 192 Israeli and 192 Belgian monolingual schoolchildren in grades 1-6 (aged 6;0-12;0) were administered r...

Language-Specific Effects on the Development of Written Morphology

1.0 Introduction This paper discusses the morphology of children's written language from a developmental perspective, examining the acquisition of written morphology in gradeschool children from the beginning of formal literacy education to the end of gradeschool. We examine how children learning to spell Hebrew and Dutch – two typologically very different languages – approach problems in mappi...

The No - Man ’ s - Land of Language

What does it mean to write when you inhabit the fraught borderline between Hebrew and Arabic? Well, it depends on whom you ask. In a Hebrew poem insisting that strangers can be friends, the Palestinian Israeli poet Salman Masalha infuses the statement “Ani kotev ‘ivrit,” “I write Hebrew,” with myriad shades of wonder and possibility.3 In an opposing poetic maneuver, Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Moroc...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Native Israeli Speakers