The Rise and Decline of a Dialect: A Study in the Revival of Hebrew

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ON THE BACKGROUND: BEN-YEHUDA -- 3 THE ROLE OF TEACHERS, PO'ALIM AND YOUTH IN THE REVIVAL -- 4 CONDITIONS FOR A SPECIAL DIALECT: SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS -- 5 THE CREATION OF A SPECIAL UPPER GALILEAN HEBREW DIALECT IN A MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENT: EPSTEIN -- 6 ON SOME BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ASHKENAZI AND THE SEPHARDI TRADITIONS OF PRONUNCIATION -- 7 FRICATIVIZATION (SPIRANTIZATION) OF /b/, OR NOT? -- 8 EPSTEIN'S REGRESSION -- 9 PROMOTING THE GALILEAN DIALECT: WILKOMITZ -- 10 NATIVIZATION AND CONTINUITY PROCESSES BY CHILDREN -- 11 PRONUNCIATION ISSUES AT THE FIRST HEBREW TEACHERS' ASSEMBLY (1903) -- 12 ENCOUNTER AT THE SECOND TEACHERS' ASSEMBLY (1904) -- 13 THE AFTERMATH OF THE CONFRONTATION AT THE SECOND ASSEMBLY -- 14 DEBATE AT A SESSION OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE COMMITTEE IN 1913 -- 15 THE ATTITUDE OF THE REST OF THE COUNTRY -- 16 DISSEMINATING THE DIALECT: SOME SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS -- 17 WHAT ABOUT LOWER GALILEE? -- 18 THE BEGINNING OF THE END: THE DEATH OF A DIALECT -- 19 HYPER CORRECTION PHENOMENA: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS -- 20 POST MORTEM: MYTH, DISTORTION, RIDICULE -- 21 YAMIM SEL ZAHAV - "DAYS OF GOLD" -- 22 SHIBBOLETHS FOR GALILEANS -- 23 CONCLUDING NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX