With reference to his former article on the logical ward-stress in Serbo-Croatian (Ivšićev zbornik, Zagreb 1963) dealing with some groups of nominal compounds, the author first points to' the action of such stress upon compound loan-words, of Latin-Europeam origin and then treats some derivatives of the same origin, which are also subject to its action. Both in compounds and in derivatives in question logical stress appears under rather complex circumstances, where it is not always easy to discern the respective shares of foreign influence and of inner processes, and in the case of the latter - the results of the phonetic patterns and of the logical stress proper. At any rate, the prevalence of the initial short-falling accent on such words is as a rule a sign of the presence of logical stress.
