Masoretic Accents

• Douglas K. Smith, Jr.,  "Teaching with the Te'amim: How the Masoretic Accents Can Foster Fluency for Reading Biblical Hebrew," Hebrew Higher Education 25: 75-109. Free PDF Download (includes extensive bibliography and weblinks)

• Table of Accents PDFs (at Academia.edu)

• Jonah Reader (at Academia.edu)

• Structure function on HebrewTransliteration.app

The bibliography in the first link shares many helpful articles, books, and other resources. Here are a few that are freely available online:

TOOLS FOR READING WITH THE ACCENTS

For Reading Along

• Animated Hebrew Bible Reader: https://animatedhebrew.com/reader/ot/73

• Be’eri, Dan.Tanakh Audio Recording https://archive.org/details/TanakhAudioRecordingByRabbiDanBeeri-BookByBook

• Daily Dose of Aramaic: https://dailydoseofaramaic.com/ (videos often observe the accents)

• Daily Dose of Hebrew: https://dailydoseofhebrew.com (videos often observe the accents)

• Letteris Hebrew Bible. Logos Bible Software. https://www.logos.com/product/198013/letteris-hebrew-bible 

• Shmuelof, Abraham. Chapter-by-Chapter MP3 Recordings of the Hebrew Bible. https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm

Overviews

• Barrick, William B. 2004. "The Masoretic Accents in Translation and Interpretation." https://drbarrick.org/files/papers/other/HebrewAccentsrev.pdf

• Ferris, Paul. n.d. "Guide to the Masoretic Accent System." Bethel Seminary Center for Biblical and Theological Foundations. https://people.bethel.edu/~pferris/otcommon/Hebrew/hebrew-guides/HEBSTGD006.pdf 

• Schnittjer, Gary. 2016. “A Student Guide to Masoretic Accents.” https://scriptureworkshop.com/bh/x/m/accents_overview.pdf 

FOR DIGGING DEEPER

• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Amstelodamensis). Eep Talstra Center for Bible and Computer. https://etcbc.github.io/bhsa/ (custom searching; advanced)

• Brown, Arianne. 2012.Tricks of the Trope. Youtube video series.

  • Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhGnuwmJ4E 

  • Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p25BYuj6rVA 

  • Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVJ_YWcOzSUCa 

• De Hoop, Raymond. 2008. "Stress and Syntax; Music and Meaning: The Purpose and Function of the Masoretic Accentuation System." Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 34 (2): 99–121.

• –. 2000. "The Colometry of Hebrew Verses and the Masoretic Accents: Evaluation of a Recent Approach (Part 1)." Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26 (1): 47–73.

• –.2000. "The Colometry of Hebrew Verse and the Masoretic Accents: Evaluation of a Recent Approach, (Part 2)." Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26 (2): 65–100.

• De Hoop, Raymond, and Sanders, Paul. 2022. "The System of Masoretic Accentuation: Some Introductory Issues." Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 22: 1–65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs29622 

• Notarius, Tania. 2018. "'Double Segmentation’ in Biblical Hebrew Poetry and the Poetic Cantillation System." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 168 (2): 333–352.

• Park, Sung Jin. 2014. "'Pointing to the Accents in the Scroll’: Functional Development of the Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible." Hebrew Studies 55: 73–88.

• –. 2013. "Application of the Tiberian Accentuation System for Colometry of Biblical Hebrew Poetry." Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 39 (2):113–27.

• Pitcher, Sophia L. 2021. "Towards a Prosodic Model for Tiberian Hebrew: An Intonation-Based Analysis." Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 63:1–27.

• –. 2020. "A Prosodic Model for Tiberian Hebrew: A Complexity Approach to the Features, Structures, and Functions of the Masoretic Cantillation Accents." PhD diss., University of the Free State.

• –. 2017. "Towards the Development of An Intonation-Based Prosodic Modelf or the Masoretic Cantillation Accents of Tiberian Hebrew." Masters Thesis, University of the Free State

• Price, James D. 2010. The Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible, 2nd edition, revised and corrected. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. https://www.jamesdprice.com/images/21_Syntax_of_Accents_rev._ed..pdf

• Wickes, William. 1887. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-One So-Called Prose Books of the Old Testament. 

• –. 1970 edition reprinted with intro by A. Dotan. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Three So-Called Poetical Books of the O.T. : Psalms, Proverbs, and Job

Reading Fluency in General

• Rasinski, Timothy V. 2014. Fluency Matters. International ElectronicJournal of Elementary Education 7 (1): 3–12. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1053609.pdf