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Accentuation of Complex Nouns in Bulgarian Language

Author(s): Mirena Patseva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, School education, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Philology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Stylistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: lexical accentuation; metric accentuation; complex nouns; optimality theory

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers an analysis of the accentuation of complex nouns in the Bulgarian language, based on the theory of optimality and the interaction between morphology and phonology. The aim is to outline the tendency for realization of the accent characteristic of the dominant component in the structure, which acts in parallel with metric regularities. Constraints are formulated, expressing basic regularities in the accentuation, such as the orientation of the main stress to the right base and the morphological head. Their ranking in different types of structures is considered. A metric constraint is also introduced, describing the initial position of the secondary stress under certain conditions. The conclusion is substantiated that the additional accent in many cases is lexical and serves for semantic differentiation, and at the same time it also has a metrical manifestation.

  • Issue Year: 62/2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 585 - 598
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian