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Ikerlan honetan euskararen silaba‐egituraren nolakotasuna eta sortze lehentasunak azalduta erakutsi da euskaran gertatzen diren bilakabide fonologiko ugariren arrazoia silaba egitura unitatetzat gordetzea dela.
Silaba, egitura erritmikoan funtsezko elementu denez, erritmoa oinarritzat hartzen duen tipologia holistikoaren bidez euskara modernoaren hizkuntz tipoaren ezaugarriak aztertu dira: hizkuntza silaba‐aldikoa, eranslea, sistema fonologiko aski naturala duena, etab.
Ikusi da erritmoaren azterketarekin euskararen berreraiketa proposamenei ekarpenak gehi dakizkiela, esaterako, hitz azentu aldaketaren bidez (Lakarrak, 2005, 2006, proposatzen duen) hizkuntz tipo aldaketarako oinarriak eskainiz.
Egungo eta berreraikitako euskararen azalpenaren ondoan, euskararen silaba egituraren tresnabidezko bi azterketak burutu dira: bata akustikoa (egungo hizkera arduragabean oinarrituta silaba egiturak akustikoki aztertzeko) eta bestea informatikoa (testu idatzietan, diakronian, silaba egituren maiztasunak zenbatzeko).
Ikerketan, silabaren azterketak euskararen ezagutza sakondu eta hedatzea dakarren neurrian, silabak azterketa linguistikoan, eta batez ere, fonologikoan duen garrantzia azpimarratu da.
The present dissertation, based on the theory of Natural Phonology, examines the phonological features and the preferences (along the lines of Vennemann 1988) of the Basque syllable structure.
At the same time, it is shown that the motivation for the occurrence of many segmental phonological processes in Basque is the optimization of the unit syllable as such.
The dissertation also puts forward the idea that optimization of syllable structure may be an important motivation for the existence and productivity of many segmental processes of Basque phonology.
The holistic typology based on rhythm (Donegan / Stampe 1983, 2004) is fundamental in this dissertation. From that point of view, nowadays Basque exhibits a certain typological pattern: a agglutinating language, with a syllable‐timed language‐rhythm, and a quite natural phonological system, etc.
The dissertation intends to contribute, from the rhythmic perspective, to the recent proposals (especially Lakarra 2005, 2006) for the reconstruction of the Basque language. In addition to that, two experimental analysis are presented. The first one is an acoustic phonetic experiment, as it measures the duration of syllables (of different syllable structures) in spontaneous speech. The second analysis is a diachronic comparison of the frequency of appearance of the different syllable structure types in several Basque written texts.
This piece of research aims at a better knowledge of the Basque language and also to underline the importance of the syllable in linguistic, and especially in honological studies.
