[Mesorah] nasog achor

[D&E-H Bannett]

RTK informs us that in linguistics, "There is also such a 
thing as a lightly stressed syllable".

That is true in Hebrew as well.  That's the main reason for 
the meteg in multisyllable words in Tanakh.  While the ta'am 
indicates the main stress, the meteg is the secondary one.

The only thing that might cause confusion is that there are 
a  few t'amim that must appear at the beginning or end of 
the word independent of the location of the main stress.

Another possible confusion might result from the fact that 
groups of words connected by hyphens (makafim) are 
considered to be one word and, therefore, have a single 
ta'am mafsik. This follows from the general rule that every 
word has a ta'am and no word has two.  Okay I know, 
excluding the few words that every ba'al k'ria knows where 
the mesorah has accepted that there are two t'amim.


mo'adim l'simcha,

David