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Examines what is believed to be a coherent subset of the lexicon of modern Russian, here called 'echo/rhyme combinations'. Examines these words from a phonetic, morphological and lexicosemantic point of view, discussing in detail the information they provide about echo, rhyme and subsidiary stress in Russian.

In an update of R. Hingley's (1952) study of stress variation in Russian nouns ending in -a/-ya, paradigmatic stress patterns of the 15 nouns assigned by A. A. Zaliznyak (1985) to type d', exemplified by spina 'back', are investigated in nine lexicographic sources published between 1959 & 2000 & findings of Ukiah's (1996) survey of native speaker usage in Moscow. Results for each word are presented with commentary & are interpreted as evidence of (1) a high level of variation in the accusative singular, where stem stress tends to be removed in favor of uniform desinential stress throughout the singular paradigm; (2) the weakness of any tendency towards a direct-oblique opposition in plural accentuation; & (3) a tendency towards a singular-plural accentual opposition that affects more nouns than a movement towards fixed stem stress throughout the paradigm. 1 Appendix, 37 References. J. Hitchcock

Recent research in Russian on the issue of mobile stress in the past tense indicative is considered; while stress shifts occur (word-final in past tense feminine & neuter singular forms) in many Russian verbs, it is likely that the effects of analogy are leveling this distinction. The results of a 1994 survey of educated Muscovites (N = 21), rating the acceptability of carious accented verbs, reveal that stress-shifted verbs are often assumed to be incorrect when they in fact are correct; subjects preferred stress shift in feminine & neuter singular forms, but not exclusively. Judgments among those surveyed are highly varied, showing a possible disintegration of recognition of the stress shift paradigm. 19 References. A. Cohen-Siegel

The emergence of new stress variants for the word forms in the Russian quadripartite inflectional paradigm of verbs & adjectives (masculine, feminine, neuter, & plural) is investigated using field data published earlier (Ukiah, 1996). The survey indicates a clear breakdown in traditional stress patterns in the different four-part paradigms, suggesting a widespread restructuring of the accentual system. The evidence points toward a reshaping of the traditional tripartite system (fixed stem-stress, fixed desinence-stress for forms having a desinence, & mobile stress) into a binary system opposing fixed stem-stress to fixed desinence-stress. This entails the elimination of the traditional mobile stress pattern contrasting the feminine form as the word-forms with this mobility pattern are being pulled in the direction of either of two now dominant patterns. Evidence for the variability & attractiveness of the fixed stem-stress is found in all the areas of instability, whereas the fixed desinence-stress prevails in the past indicative of reflexive verbs, where it is now standard & subject to very little variation. 3 Tables, 43 References. Z. Dubiel