Einat Gonen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Einat Gonen plays a role.
Articles
2019 Language change, prescriptive language, and spontaneous speech in Modern Hebrew: A corpus-based study of early recordings Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 201–220 | Chapter
Unlike most living languages, the use of Hebrew as a spoken language is characterized by historical discontinuity. In this article, I discuss certain features of spoken usage among the first generations of speakers of Modern Hebrew (henceforth: MH), using a unique corpus – ten hours of… read more
2018 Imperfect language learning vs. dynamic sound change: The shift [i]>[e] in the verbal template hifʕil in Modern Hebrew Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:2, pp. 169–191 | Article
Modern Hebrew provides an idiosyncratic case for historical linguistic study: due to the discontinuity of its use as a spoken language, differences between contemporary structures and classical ones do not necessarily reflect change processes, but may instead result from imperfect language… read more