Euskal azentuaren inguruan

Abstract

In this article some basic notions of word-prosody and, in particular, Basque word-prosody are examined. In section 1, the notions of stress, tone and pitch-accent are briefly reviewed. In section 2, there is a discussion of the work that has been done by different authors in the area of Basque prosody. It is argued that much basic descriptive work still needs to be done. Finally, in section 3, three Biscayan prosodic systems are compared with the purpose of showing that even what, at first glance, may look like rather similar systems, at a deeper level of analysis may present important differences of great theoretical significance.