Present day Hebrew speakers tend to say KATAB-TEM with three vowels
and a stress on the second A, but to my ear, the "masoretic" KTAB-TEM
(as the $MAR-TEM of Jos. 22:2), with only two vowels (no schwa
"mobile"), and a stress on the E, sounds better. This is how I do it
when I recite Hebrew in public.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Jul 14, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
kɔ:θ'av kɔ:θəv'u:
kɔ:θəv'ɔ:
kɔ:θ'avtɔ: kəθavt'ɛm
kɔ:θ'avt kəθavt'ɛn
kɔ:θ'avti: kɔ:θ'avnu:
Looking at this (and other vocalic alternations in Hebrew verb and
noun forms), I think one can see the surface forms as being pretty
shallow phonetic transformations on an underlying paradigm looking
like this:
kat'ab katab'u
katab'a(h)
kat'abta katabt'em
kat'abt katabt'en
kat'abti kat'abnu
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