Volume 22, Winter 2000

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22, Winter 2000
(University of Calgary, 2000-01) Atkey, Susan; Carson, Jana; Dobrovolsky, Michael
The editors of this volume, Susan Atkey, Jana Carson, and Michael Dobrovolsky, are pleased to present the twenty-second issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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Secondary stress in Russian compound words: evidence from poetic metrics
(University of Calgary, 2000-01) Karpacheva, Olga
In this paper I argue that it is necessary to distinguish between stress which is inherent in words and stress which is assigned at a phrasal level. More specifically, I argue that secondary stress in Russian compounds is superimposed on the existing word stress contours by rhythm. Support in favor of this claim comes from the distribution of secondary stress in Russian poetry. I show that secondary stress in Tutčev's verse is assigned to the first constituent of compounds only in strong metrical positions.