1. I can easily believe you. The natural doubling of a consonant wedged between two vowels is, indeed, faint and brief. 2. It has nothing to do with accent.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Randall Buth wrote: >> One hears it in AB-BIY, >> 'my father', AX-XIY, 'my brother', etc. Those who say they don't >> hear it need to pay closer attention. > > I don't hear it, though there is natural length on the accented vowel. > In Arabic one does hear lengthened consonants. > However, I don't think that dagesh is Pere's question. > I 'm guessing that he wants to know about pi``al vs. pi``el. > > Randall Buth > > -- > Randall Buth, PhD > www.biblicallanguagecenter.com > Biblical Language Center > Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
