Unit 2 Flashcards
What is an open syllable?
Syllables consisting of a consonant + vowel/diphthong (combo of 2 adjacent vowel sounds)
What is a closed syllable?
Syllables consisting of a consonant + vowel/diphthong + consonant
What is the tonic syllable?
Where the stress is placed in the word
What syllables do long vowels prefer?
All tonic syllables or open pretonic syllables
What syllables do short vowels prefer?
Unstressed closed syllables or open tonic syllables
What syllables do reduced vowels and vocal shewa prefer?
Open propretonic syllables
There are 4 circumstances!
What conditions make a shewa vocal?
1) At the beginning of a word
2) After a long vowel
3) After a silent shewa
4) Pointing a strong dagesh
Where does weak dagesh appear?
In begadkefat letters when the letter is not following a vowel
Where does strong dagesh appear?
In doubled consonants (except א ה ח ע ר)
Where is qames hatuf found?
In closed, unstressed syllables or immediately before hatef qames
What are the guttural consonants?
א ה ח ע
There are 3
What are features of the gutturals?
1) They can’t be doubled
2) They can’t be pointed with vocal shewa, but the reduced vowels
3) They prefer A-class vowels
What are the features of quiescent aleph?
Appears at the end of a syllable, having no pointing and not being considered a consonant syllabically
