Stress in Russian

[Bob Johnson]

the huge class of words with antepenultimate stress (e.g. adequate, abstinent, balcony, democracy, habitual, machinery, impoverish, educate, efficiency, amity, photography).

Can't these be analyzed as initial or secondary stress? How about some longer words, with at least five syllables? (And no, those of you with peanuts-for-throwing, I don't mean antidisestablishmentarianism and floccinaucinihilipilification, but rather words that people seriously use.)

advertisement (American pronunciation)

As an American, I suggest that the American pronunciation is "ad." Ádvertisement sounds just as wrong as advértisement. (Though ádvertising is fine, somehow) Likewise, the American stress pattern for "television" is "tée-vée."

final stress: reject, abuse ...

These are some of those noun/verb pairs with stress alternation.

juxtapose

Initial. Also note that the others are two-syllable words -- secondary seems more likely than final stress.

[Lukas Kelly]

I know that Russian is very particular with where stress is placed, because stress can change the meaning of a word. Like rebel and rebel(the noun and verb).

[tezcatlip0ca]

How about "the largest even number of syllables possible before the first vowel preceding the penultimate consonant"? I know it's not that accurate, and it probably has thousands of exceptions, but...