In Modern Hebrew, only three segmental markers are typically acknowledged as ethnically
conditioned, and usage of these markers has significantly decreased in second and third …

Israeli sociolinguistics is characterized by a transition from Ancient Multilingualism to
Hebrew hegemony at the beginning of statehood and to present day plurilingualism. Israel's …

Abstract The Tel Aviv neighborhood of HaTikva, originally home mostly to Mizrahi Jews, has
undergone a considerable demographic shift in recent years. This paper discusses the …

We report a lexical decision task experiment, in which words were manipulated such that
two different sounds had been switched with each other: the voiceless pharyngeal and …

This chapter presents an overview of contemporary prescriptive language ideologies and
attitudes towards Modern Hebrew. Its first part outlines the basic tension in Hebrew …

In the speech of many Hebrew speakers, the distinction between the voiceless pharyngeal
fricative/?/and its non-pharyngeal counterpart is neutralized, with the non-pharyngeal …

One of the core assumptions of the sociolinguistic interview methodology is that read speech
tasks may be used to elicit more standard variants from a speaker. This link between reading …

We report a lexical decision task experiment, in which words were manipulated such that
two different sounds had been switched with each other: the voiceless pharyngeal and …