Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation
In the central and western Basque-speaking regions there are two main accentual types: In the Northern Bizkaian area we find a pitch-accent system with demarcative phrase-initial rises and uniformly Ladder falling (H*L) accents, on the last syllable of the phrase in the unmarked case.In the rest of the area the general rule is postinitial accent.Th