出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：The Hebrew Bible text is annotated with a complex system of diacritic marks called 'accents'. This system of representation was developed in and around Tiberias over several generations up until the ninth century. The nature and purpose of these accent marks have been much debated. I will argue that they provide what we would today call a prosodic representation, whose purpose is to indicate the correct phrasing of the text. I will show that there are interesting similarities between the Tiberian system and recent proposals concerning prosodic structure. Modern prosodic theory, in fact, sheds light on some problematic elements of Tiberian accentuation. Conversely, I will argue that prosodic theory can fruitfully incorporate some elements of that system.
