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The accentuation of Russian words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Morris Halle
Morris Halle*
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

This paper reviews the accentual patterns found in the various inflectional paradigms of Russian and develops a number of rules to characterize these patterns. It then surveys the most common accentual patterns found in different types of word formation, and discusses the manner in which the rules developed in the first part of the paper account for these patterns. A number of theoretical issues in phonology (cyclic rule application, the role of disjunctive ordering, etc.) are briefly discussed, as are certain accentual phenomena in other, mainly Slavic, languages.

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Language , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , June 1973, pp. 312 - 348
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Copyright © Linguistic Society of America 1973

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