О некоторых приёмах работы над ритмикой и интонацией в преподавании РКИ

About some techniques of working on rhythm and intonation in teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL). Accent-centricity of the Russian phonetic word is an important aspect of the study of RFL and the correct pronunciation. Verbal stress is not only the basis of the rhythmic organization of a phonetic word, but also an integral part of the intonation of the utterance. The article contains practical recommendations that simplify and speed up the process of mastering rhythmic patterns and intonation structures of the Russian language.

Accentuation of prefixed nouns in the Ukrainian language continuum: establishment of the norm

The article highlights the behavior of verbal stress in prefixed and prefixed and suffixed nouns as well as dynamic processes in establishing their accent type. The paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of stress in prefixed and prefixed and suffixed nouns with noun prefixes (u­, pа­, рrа­, su­) and with originally long verb and noun prefixes (vy­, nа­, nаd­, roz­, pere­), presented in «Словарь української мови» in 4 volumes, ed. by B. Hrinchenko (1907–1909), «Малоруско­-нїмецкий словар» by E. Zhelekhivsky and S. Nedilsky (1886), and the dictionary­ reference book «Ukrainian literary pronunciation and emphasis», ed. by M. Zhovtobryukh (1973). The comparative analysis of these lexicographical works revealed that the nouns under study are functioning with a prefixal, root accent type, and at the present stage they have not changed their stress; there are differences in stress, which indicate the existence of different regional traditions in the Ukrainian accent system. The analysis also helped to understand which of the regional options scholars preferred when codifying the stress in the nouns under study. At the same time, it is noted that the prefixal stress in nouns was ancient and primary, and the tendency to shift the stress from the prefix to the root developed in the Ukrainian language, since there is a large number of nouns with prefixal stress recorded in Ukrainian accentuated manuscripts from the late 16th — early 18th centuries.

Spanish stress and lexical accent across syntactic categories

In this paper, I provide an analysis of Spanish stress with the following three characteristics: (a) both verbal and non-verbal stress are accounted for in a single, unified, system, (b) the three-syllable window for stress is accounted for in a principled way, and (c) the stress algorithm has no access to the morphosyntactic structure. I do this by extending Roca’s analysis of variable edge parameters for stress in Spanish non-verbs to verbs, and by arguing that morphemes which mark for only person, number, and gender (φ-features) are outside of the domain of stress because they are prosodic adjuncts.