How to Use this Book Transliterations, Translations and Text Sources Chapter 1 Cantillation The Ritual Art of Chanting the Hebrew Scriptures The Terminology of Cantillation Chironomy Why Chant? The Scroll Ambiguity in the Consonantal Text The Masoretic Text The Rhythm of Cantillation The Pitches of Cantillation Ekphonetic Notation Transcriptions of the te''amim Inflection Resolving Ambiguity Chapter 2.1 Parallelism Corresponding Parallelism Parallel Actions Analogous Parallelism Elliptical Parallelism Chapter 2.2 The Primary Dichotomy: Siluk and Etnata The Disjunctive Siluk Meteg The Disjunctive Etnata Chanting Diagramming Phrases Parsing Level One: Contiguous Segments Exception: Verses without Etnata The Pausal Form Word Order Chapter 2.3 Level Two: Tippea The Secondary Dichotomy: Tippea Three Independent Clauses The Simple Sentence The Nominal Clause Chapter 2.4 Conjunctives Recursive Dichotomy Disjunctives and Conjunctives within a Segment Merekha - The "Servant" of Siluk Merekha - The "Servant" of Tippea Merekha Khefulah Muna Conjunctives and Dagesh Kal The "Conjunctive Soft" Form Chapter 2.5 Substitutions Tippea Substituting for a Conjunctive One-Word Clauses in Level One Two Te''amim on a Long Word Mayela and Siluk on a Single Word Mayela and Etnata on a Single Word Muna and Etnata on a Single Word Merekha and Tippea on a Single Word Two Munas : A Double Conjunctive Chapter 2.6 Level Two: Zakef Stepping Segments Stepping Segments and Nesting Segments The Four Forms of Zakef Muna --The Conjunctive Serving Zakef Katon A New Model Another Upgrade Review: Three Models of Dichotomy Review Verb in Second Position The Word The Vocative Case Chapter 2.7 Level Two: Segol When Does Segol Appear? Muna-- The Conjunctive Serving Segol .

Shalshelet as a Substitute for Segol Pasek The Seven Occurences of Shalshelet Rabbinic Exegesis of Shalshelet Chapter 2.8 Tevir The Disjunctive Tevir Examples of Tevir Relative Cadences: Tippea and Tevir Upgrading: Tevir Substituting for Merekha The Conjunctives of Tevir : Darga and Merekha A New Model Verb In Terminal Position Chapter 2.9 The Remote Conjunctives of Tevir Kadma And Muna: The Secondary Conjunctives of Tevir Verb in the Middle -- Part Two Secondary Accents Merekha Khefulah and Darga : Two Conjunctives before Tippea More than One Remote Conjunctive Three or More Conjunctives Chapter 2.10 Revia '' Upgrade: Tevir to Revia '' The Dichotomy of Lists Revia '' Analysis Three Level-Three "Stepping" Segments Darga --The Remote Conjunctive Of Revia '' Three Conjunctives before Revia '' Chapter 2.11 Pashta The Disjunctive Pashta Pashta and Kadma Yetiv --A Substitute for Pashta Muna Upgraded to Pashta or Yetiv The Meteg as Lengthener Substitutions and the Conjunctive- Rafeh Rule Verses with No Conjunctives The Conjunctives of Pashta -- Mahpakh and Merekha Derivation of the Name "Mahpakh" Mahpakh and Pashta on The Same Word Mahpakh and Yetiv The Retracted Accent-- Nasog Aor The Remote Conjunctives of Pashta -- Kadma or Muna The Third and Fourth Remote Conjunctives of Pashta Revia ''--The Initial Level-Three Disjunctive before Pashta Upgrading Pashta to Revia '' Chapter 2.12 Zarka Zarka The Conjunctives of Zarka Upgrading Muna-Segol to Zarka-Segol Upgrading for Long Words The Remote Conjunctives of Zarka--Kadma or Muna Muna Instead of Kadma Three Conjunctives before Zarka Four Conjunctives before Zarka Two Subdivisions under Segol Three Subdivisions under Segol Chapter 2.13 Level Four: Geresh Simple Verses and Complex Verses Subdividing a Level-Three Segment Geresh and Double Geresh The Forms of Geresh Geresh without a Conjunctive Upgrading for Long Words The Conjunctives of Geresh--Kadma and Muna The Remote Conjunctive of Geresh -- Telishah Ketanah Muna --The Conjunctive before Telishah Ketanah To Geresh or Not to Geresh ? The Geresh Segment In Context Chapter 2.14 Level Four: Legarmeh The Disjunctive Legarmeh Legarmeh or Geresh ? The 2+1 Division and Exceptions to the Rule Stepping Level-Four Segments The Conjunctive of Legarmeh--Merekha Three or More Stepping Segments Analysis of Complete Verses Chapter 2.

15 Level Four: Pazer The Distribution of Level-Four Terminators The Disjunctive Pazer ( Katan ) The Conjunctive of Pazer--Muna Level-Four Segments Three Stepping Segments The Pazer Segment in Context Lists Level Five Chapter 2.16 Level Four: Pazer Gadol The Disjunctive Pazer Gadol ( Karney-Farah ) The Conjunctive of Pazer Gadol--Galgal ( Yera-Ben-Yomo ) The Pazer Gadol Clause in Context Chapter 2.17 Telishah Gedolah The Disjunctive Telishah Gedolah Telishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Geresh Telishah Gedolah and Geresh on the Same Word Telishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Pazer Telishah Gedolah as a Level-Five Terminator Telishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Telishah Ketanah The Telishah Gedolah Clause in Context Chapter 3 Pronunciation The Importance of Correct Pronunciation Halakhic Evidence The Evolution of the Hebrew Language An Official Hebrew Diction The "Elevated" Style About this Guide Consonant "Voicing" The Pronunciation of The Pronunciation of and The Pronunciation of Other Differences Run-on Words Vowel Length Pure Vowels Consistent Pronunciation Doubled Consonants Becoming Familiar with Dagesh azak Mappik The Function of Mappik The Sound of Mappik Shin and Sin Matres Lectionis -- Syllables Open Syllables Closed Syllables Dagesh Kal The Conjunctive Soft Form Consonant Endings Dagesh azak in Vocal Sheva ( Sheva Na '') Intermediate Sheva ( Sheva Meraef ) Summary: Prefix Chart Kamats Forms Kamats before Deik Two Approaches to the Rules of Pronunciation Furtive Pata ( Pata Genuvah ) And as Consonants Some Words Are Not Pronounced as They Are Written Syllabic Stress: Millera '' and Mille''el Marking the Accent The Secondary Accent Syllabic Rhythm Makkef Vowel Length Reduction in Connected Words Special Te''amim for Contiguous Accents Retraction Secondary Stress Observations on Secondary Stress The Euphonic Meteg Meteg Summary The Pausal Form Vowel Changes in Pausal Form Change Of Stress in the Hiatus Form Change Of Stress in Vav Conversive The Directional (or "Locative") Suffix Suffixes and Syllabic Stress Rare Words that Begin with Dagesh azak ( ) Pronunciation of the Conjunctive Dagesh The Vocalization of Prefixes The Definite Article Prepositional Prefixes &.