Re: USAGE: heuristics for Russian stress?
| From: | Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 16, 2008, 23:22 |
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:35:50PM -0500, Alex Fink wrote:
> Sure, I know it's phonemic; I'm never going to manage to get everything
> correct. But that doesn't mean there's no way to take an educated guess.
> It's quite likely that there are several rules, or at least of thumb, by
> which most words (or nouns, or verbs... in a certain case, tense, ...) of a
> certain phonetic or orthographic shape, or morphological composition, or
> etymological origin, or so forth, can have their stress predicted. Aren't
> there?
Ok, you're probably right. And I think I was taught verbs grouped into
different classes according to whether their stress shifted - but those
were subclasses of the obvious declensions, so still depended on memorizing.
Anyway, I thought I had a stress rule for you about verbs w/infinitive of
/at'/ (' is palatalization) and 3rd person singular of /ajet/, but then
I thought of a counterexample. So I know nothing!
Amanda