Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 22:16:07 -0800
From: Donald Livingston deljr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: Re: Help with Russian accents
Dear Mr Paine,
There are quite a few works that deal with the details of Russian
stress in phenomenal detail. Check your library for Udarenie_v_
sovremennom_russkom_jazyke by N. A. Fedjanina (Izdatel'stvo "Russikij
jazyk"). Said book notes not only pretty well all the stress patterns of
the Russian noun, but also notes the number of nouns that fall into those
patterns.
For some of us aspiring linguists out here, your question about how to
represent stress information in a computer program immediately brings to
mind the question of how that information is stored in the Lexicon of the
human brain. There are number of articles available that attempt to
break down the complex pattern of Russian nominal stress into a few
simple principles. If you're interested in references, drop me a line.
Two of them I can think of might lend themselves to codable algorithms.
All the best, Don.
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