Statutul fonematic al consoanelor palatale [k', g'] şi unele aspecte conexe
The Phonemic Statut of the Palatals [c, g] and Some Connected Aspects

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian palatal stops [c, g] and the velar stops [k, g] may be interpreted as independent phonemes or as allophones of phonemes /k, g/. The author brings some arguments for the second interpretation: – the phonetic kinship between the stops [c, ï] and [k, g] and the syntagmatic relations of these consonants with the following vowels enable their participation to the chains of the palatalized/non-palatalized consonants [t – t’, d – d’, n – n’ … k – c, g – ï]; – the extent of palatalization of the velar stops [k, g] followed by front vowels varies from the more or less palatalized velars as far as palatals [c, ï] in the Transylvanian variant of the literary speech, but also in the standard pronunciation in syntactical phonetics; – the report between [c, ï] and [k, g] is like the report between the palatal fricative [ç] and the glottal fricative [h], but the majority of the phoneticians account this as allophones of the phoneme /h/. That interpretation enables a plainer explanation of the restricted distribution of these consonants as allophones: [c, ï] precede the front vowels [e, i] and [k, g] precede the back vowels ă, î [{, }]. Between the palatal stops [c, ï] and the palatal vowels [e, i] there is a reciprocal interrelation: the latter assimilates the former velar consonants (within the word and in syntactic phonetics) and the acute sonority of the palatal consonants determines the acute sonority of the following vowels.

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