Word Accent in the Formation of Nouns, Adjectives and Numerals in the Bansko Dialect

This article presents the accent paradigms emerging from the different forms of nouns, adjectives and numerals in the Bansko dialect. This dialect tends to stabilise the accent in specific rhythmic-intonational groups, where stress distribution occurs within the boundaries of a single phonetic word. In such accent systems, the combined influence of morphological and rhythmic-intonational (syntactic) factors leads to the development of a distinct rhythmic melody. In the Bansko dialect, this phenomenon is ob-served both in phrases containing a phonetic word (base word + enclitic) and in polysyllabic (four-syllable or longer) words with double stress.