Emfaza lui nu la formele negative ale verbului (II)

Abstract

The emphasis of the adverb nu in the negative forms of the verb is considered a specific trait of Romanian language. This paper (first part in FD XXXVII), based on a corpus extracted from the AMPROM Archive, investigates the auditory prominence of nu in relation to the accented vowel of the verb, using the main acoustic properties (duration, intensity and fundamental frequency) of the vowels (n)u and (v)e(de), (v ă z)u(t). The adverb nu is researched in the following contexts: 1. Inside of a negative assertive statement: Nevasta nu vede un c ă pitan (1st part). 2. Inside of a negative interrogative sentence: Nevasta nu vede un c ă pitan? 3. At the beginning of a negative assertive sentence: Nu l-am v ă zut pe Ion/Mihai. 4. In the third position, and followed by the vowel a , in which case nu takes the allomorfs nu, n-: Nu-am/N-am v ă zut fetele. The