On word stress of the Lower Chepets dialect in the Udmurt language

The article deals with the problem of word stress in the Lower Chepets dialect which is a part of the Northern Udmurt dialect. The research is based on the material collected during field work with native speakers of this dialect. The author focuses on specific characteristics distinguishing the studied dialect from other Northern Udmurt subdialects. In the course of research it was revealed that the dialect has a large number of words, which distinguish it from other Udmust dialects by stress position. The specific phenomena of accentuation that are traced in some morphological categories and word groups are analyzed. Language phenomena of the Lower Chepets subdialects are compared with analogous phenomena of the Northern Udmurt dialects and other subdialects. The obtained results show that according to the main features of word stress the Lower Chepets dialect has closest similarities to the Middle Chepets subdialects of the Northern Udmurt dialect. A number of revealed peculiarities coincide with emphasized features of the Besermyan and Kukmor dialects.