2 Israeli Hebrew phonology
In this chapter the phonological structure of Israeli Hebrew is presented. The following phonological characteristics of Israeli Hebrew are discussed and illustrated with examples: phonological inventory, phonological rules, consonant clusters, syllable structure, stress.
2.1 Phonological inventory
The phonological inventory of Israeli Hebrew phonemes is presented in Tables 2-1 and 2-2 below, showing consonants, then vowels, respectively. IPA symbols are used to represent the phonemes1.
It is important to bear in mind that any reference to phonological entities herein, such as phones, phonemes and/or allophones, has very little to do with Israeli Hebrew orthography or spelling; these two are independent dimensions ...
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