LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Kirčio atitraukimas; Pašušvio šnekta; Trumpoji galūnė; U kriterijus; Vakarų aukštaičiai šiauliškiai; Lithuanian; Shift of stress; Short flextion; Stress shift; Subdialect of Pašušvys; The Pašušvys subdialect; U criterion; Western Aukštaitians of Šiauliai.
ENThis paper is devoted to the phenomenon of prosody - shift of stress - of the PaSuSvys subdialect which belongs to the northern West-AukStaidant dialect. A detailed analysis of the taped recordings of the subdialect and the statistical examination reveals that the stress in polysyllabic word is naturally retracted from the short flexion into the penultimate long syllable, if it can be stressed by main stress in other forms of the paradigm. Stress shift from the short flexion into the penultimate short syllabic is facultative phenomenon determined by intonational, morphological factors and rhythmic pecularities of speech. [From the publication]