Re: Question about a grammatical term

David Peterson wrote:
 As compounds become more common, they switch to the normal compound stress,
where the first word in the compound gets normal stress, and the second loses
all its stress.
    
 There seems to be a dialect split in the US regarding "chicken soup" (and
other flavors, though chicken is most widespread)-- CHICKen soup (lotsa folks)
vs. CHICKen SOUP (me and others). I first encountered the compound-stress form
when living in NYC, where I attributed it (perhaps wrongly) to Yiddish
influence and the fact that, stereotypically, chicken soup was sort of a
panacea for all ills in Yiddish culture.