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2 48 17_Initial yod-hireq15_Pere Casanellas27_pere.casanellas@retemail.es31_Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:24:50 +0200572_iso-8859-1 Dear list members,<br><br>I can read in Joüon-Muraoka, A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, par. 94 c: "Word-initial yod-hireq, properly _yi_, seems to have been pronounced simply as _i_, at least in certain schools, and so in Contemporary Israeli Hebrew". The second part of the sentence is an addition by Muraoka.<br><br>But Asher Laufer, in "Illustrations of the IPA: Hebrew" (_Journal of the International Phonetic Association_, 20 [1990], pp. 42 and 43) gives the following transcription for both the Oriental and the Non-Oriental dialects of modern Hebrew: [...]