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The aim of this paper is to classify Romanian dialects from a prosodic point of view within the European Romance-speaking area. The data is part of the Multimedia Atlas of Romance Prosody - AMPER (Contini, 1992) and is analysed dialectometrically by means of ProDis (Elvira-García et al., 2015; Fernández Planas, 2016). The database includes more than 17,000 utterances produced by 48 speakers from 26 survey sites of 15 varieties of 6 Romance languages (Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Sardinian, Friulian and Romanian). The results show that the two main prosodic areas of Romanian (see Roseano, 2016b) remain separate when they are dialectometrized with data from other Romance languages. In addition, if one analyses questions and statements separately, it can be seen that questions allow us to distinguish geoprosodic areas more effectively than statements do (as suggested by previous studies such as Fernández Planas et al., 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about the Special Issue Current Approaches to Romanian and Spanish Intonation with focuses on Prosodic distances between different survey sites in Romance-speaking Europe, a dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation.and Some considerations about intonation patterns of vocatives in Romanian language.

Contrastive focus highlights a certain element/constituent of the statement, which can occur in some specific communication situations that require the exclusion of some possible referential alternatives in the same context. In this paper we research the prosodic means of emphasizing the adjectival extension of the subjects in the statement with SVO structure - SEVO and SVOE. Our approach is based on a comparative analysis of the same statements uttered with "neutral" intonation (broad focus) and with contrastive focus on the adjective. The corpus was selected from the archives of The Multimedia Atlas of Romania (AMPRom) and represents the literary language spoken in six points of the atlas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]