Peculiarities of Accentuation of Word Forms in Phraseological Units

Orthoepic dictionaries often support old variant of stress in word forms in phraseological units, which already isn’t used in the same word forms in free phrases. For example, v treh vodáh, not v treh vódah, kakimi sud’bámi, not kakimi súd’bami. However, 5 experiments with speakers of standard pronunciation show that accentuation of many word forms in phraseological units differs from recommendations given by the dictionaries. Accentuation of these word forms becomes the same as accentuation in free phrases, or there is accentuation variability in speech of people from different age groups, or sometimes “special” stress preserved. Many word forms in phraseological units reflect the same accentuation processes as these word forms in free phrases. These processes should be reflected in orthoepic dictionaries with permissible elder and younger variants of pronunciation. At the same time stress variants of pronunciation in words from old church Slavonic language, proper names, historicisms, archaisms in phraseological units are explained by incompetence of speakers, so these variants should be forbidden by orthoepic dictionaries. Depending on the pronunciation variants the studied phraseological units were divided into 8 groups presented in the article.