Showing posts with label key. Show all posts
Showing posts with label key. Show all posts

July 18, 2008

Chapter 3 - Key Concepts

syllabification



more on syllabification:
-Cook p.13 (p.23 of the PDF)
-Parsons U 3

the shewa



more on the shewa:
-Cook p.9-10 (p.19-20 of the PDF)
-Parsons U 3.5 and 3.6

July 07, 2008

Chapter 2 - Key Concepts

vowel markings
How I learned the 7 basic vowel markings:



(fine print for sticklers: in dictionaries and in the IPA the upside-down E is actually a schwa (from the Hebrew "shewa"); while the sound I represent above with a regular E is given in IPA as [ei]. But the association between the upside-down E and the shorter sound was how I kept these two vowel markings apart in Hebrew.)

June 30, 2008

Chapter 1 - Key Concepts

similar-looking letters (PVP p.4)