Stress Notation in the Russian Noun

One aim of any description of Russian noun morphology should be to provide the student with the information he needs in order to produce correctly all the possible forms of any given noun, i.e., such information as gender, declension type, vowel/zero alternation, and stress pattern. Unfortunately, this kind of information is seldom provided efficiently, and often it is not provided at all. Regarding information about noun stress, there are only two American textbooks for learners of Russian which attempt to provide a clear and complete presentation of the stress patterns of the Russian noun.' I shall first summarize these two presentations and then offer an alternative which I hope will be simpler and more attractive pedagogically.2 Both Bloomfield and Lunt divide nouns into eight basic stress patterns. The two analyses differ primarily in how they designate these patterns. Since designation of stress pattern is central to the alternative I wish to propose, I will begin with an analysis of the designations used by Bloomfield and Lunt. The eight stress patterns for regular nouns in Russian are these

Linguistics · Notation · Noun · Stress (linguistics) · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

• О Русском Ударении

  Open Access•АРТО МУСТАЙОКИ•Russian Linguistics•1981

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