Аннотация:This paper is aimed at investigating two Russian pitch accents never discussed in the Russian linguistics. These are: the gradual rise found in one the Russian regional variants, namely in Odessa Russian, and the prosody of breaking information into portions in standard literary spoken Russian. The gradual rise has a rising tone on the tonic syllable and gradually rising frequency changing on the post-tonic syllables. The prosody of breaking information into portions has a falling tonic syllable and slightly rising post-tonics. It also has a prolonged time of articulation. The tonal and temporal parameters of the pitch accents in consideration, their functions in discourse, and their phonological status are discussed. The criterion for the pitch accent to be viewed as an autonomous phonological unit of a language is whether the pitch accent has permanent means of expression and a stable function, or a limited set of functions in discourse. For describing the newly introduced pitch accents, the transcription based on the Pierrehumbert's autosegmental notation of prosody was used. For investigation, a minor working corpus of the Russian speech recordings was set up. It comprises two components. The first component of the corpus consists of short stories about Odessa told by the citizens, jokes, and funny stories. The second component includes recordings of friendly talks and radio conversational programs in standard Russian. The software program Praat was used in the process of analyzing the sounding data. The results presented here are exemplified by frequency tracings of records taken from the corpus.
