Re: "Sephardic" accent--sources

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Is this an article?  A book?

Could you provide bibliographic information?  Sounds worth reading.

Thank you,

Robert Cohen


>I think the accent has been documented for several decades--it isn't 
>Ashkenazic vs. Sephardic (as I've seen it written about) but Ashkenazic vs. 
>Modern Israeli (which is sort of a muddle between older Sephardic and 
>Ashkenazic, but more Sephardic than not, and usually described as 
>Sephardic). Benjamin Harshav had great fun dissecting the modern Hebrew 
>accent in "Language in Time of Revolution" (a stunning account of the 
>revival of Hebrew and its place in Jewish culture in the last century, 
>including the culture wars with Yiddish and European languages as languages 
>of critical Jewish expression). He also mentions the contrast with 
>European, Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation as modernists saw it:


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