Re: USAGE: heuristics for Russian stress?
| From: | Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 16, 2008, 22:04 |
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:58:37PM -0500, Alex Fink wrote:
> Suppose that I knew the Cyrillic script, and if necessary certain rudiments
> of Russian morphosyntax, but nothing about the Russian lexicon; and suppose
> I was called upon to read a Russian text aloud. What heuristics might I use
> to guess where the word stresses went?
None that I know of. Stress creates minimal pairs in Russian, which tells
you all by itself that it cannot be predicted.
Amanda