Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization
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This paper examines exceptionality and variation phenomena in Modern Hebrew spirantization, and discusses their theoretical implications. In Modern Hebrew, spirantization affects /b/, /p/, and /k/. These stops alternate with their fricative counterparts [v], [f], and [X], respectively, in allophonic distribution, with the fricatives occurring postvocalically and the stops occurring elsewhere (Adam 2002). An example of this distribution appears in (1), in a verbal paradigm in which /k/ is a regularly alternating segment, meaning that it surfaces as [k] word-initially and [X] post-vocalically.
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