taking poll on pronunciation

[Kevin Windle]

In my experience as a Brit living in Australia, speakers in the UK and Australia will pronounce BorodINo with exactly the stress preferred in North America, i.e. primary stress on the third syllable and a weaker one on the first. Stressing the last syllable seems unnatural to most speakers of English. It may actually render the name unrecognizable to them, forcing those who do know Russian to shift the stress to the penult when speaking English. Much the same thing happens with Vladivostok. English-speakers will generally place the stress on the penult.

Kevin Windle,

Reader, School of Language Studies,

College of Arts and Social Sciences,

Australian National University,

Canberra,

A.C.T. 0200,

Australia

Telephone: (61) (02) 6125-2885

Fax: (61) (02) 6125-3252

E-mail: Kevin.Windle at anu.edu.au


-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Helen Halva
Sent: Monday, 17 May 2010 10:32 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] taking poll on pronunciation

I would expect American English to be with BoroDINo, but the Brits might 
accent the first syllable.  Have any of them weighed in?  And what are 
you looking for, American, British, Canadian (or even Australian)  English?
HH

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