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