Verse:Irta/Modern Hebrew: Difference between revisions
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* Intonation is similar to our Cork Irish | * Intonation is similar to our Cork Irish | ||
* Really snobby prescriptivists would insist that leniting dageshed tav or tet or dageshed dalet is incorrect but basically no one would actually succeed at the "correct" pronunciation | * Really snobby prescriptivists would insist that leniting dageshed tav or tet or dageshed dalet is incorrect but basically no one would actually succeed at the "correct" pronunciation | ||
=== Qamatz-patach minimal pairs === | |||
* /bɒ'kʰɒɹ/ 'cattle, beef' vs /ba'kʰɒɹ/ 'inspector, supervisor' | |||
* /kʰɒθav/ 'he wrote' vs /kʰaθɒv/ 'journalist, correspondent, reporter' | |||
* /sɒm/ 'he put' vs /sam/ 'drug' | |||
* /ɒ'θaɹ/ = עתר '(literary) he adorned, crowned'; עתר '(law) he petitioned' vs אתר /a'θɒɹ/ 'site' | |||
* /ɒ'ðaɹ/ = 'he tilled, he hoed' vs /a'ðɒɹ/ 'Adar' | |||
== Syntax == | == Syntax == | ||