This paper is an attempt to offer an Russian-Ukrainian comparison of several claims I have made concerning the structural properties of accentual paradigms in Russian. Although the comparison of will primarily involve standard Russian and Ukrainian, Belarusian will also be mentioned where relevant. Due to complementary distribution, the invariant properties of the other two can be stated.
Exceptions do exist in some paradigms, but the general pattern seems to support the above thesis.
In some instances, the invariant properties which I established for Russian paradigms may be the key to wider East Slavic patterns. E.g., I have assumed that the Russian initial-final stress subparadigm really has initial as its distinctive property. If one looks at a Ukrainian plural, such as that of golova , it turns out that the oblique plural has the more distinctive initial stress, in contrast to its final stress in Russian. In a number of cases, Ukrainian manifests its well-known tendency to more having more variants and unstabilized stresses. The first variant may coincide with the Russian pattern, while the second violates it.