TRENDS IN ACCENTUATION NORMS IN THE SPEECH OF TODAY’S YOUNG MUSCOVITES

Abstract

This article analyses the syllable stress fluctuations in Russian nouns, long and short adjectives, non-derivative past tense verbs, prefixed past tense verbs, post-affix past tense masculine verbs, as well as present/future simple verbs in the speech of young adults in Moscow, Russia. The research rationale consists in a descriptive need to fix a minor pronunciation norm in the field of accentuation by contrasting it to the pre-existing codified norms. The presented highly illustrative results of the field experiment on Russian words accentuation reflect the trends and the reason behind the change in syllable stress norms in modern prosodic system of Russian language as a whole.

Keywords

• акцентные нормы
• вариативность
• регрессивное и прогрессивное ударение
• имплицитная норма
• эксплицитная норма
• ритмическое равновесие
• accentuation norms
• variant forms
• regressive and progressive syllable stress
• implicit norm
• explicit norm
• rhythmic balance