Methodological aspects for a study of /a/ vowel in the Romanian language

In this study, methodological aspects of a study on /a/ vowel using formants and duration according with emotional expressiveness in Romanian language are presented. The emotional states we considered are joy, fury, sadness and neutral tone. The methodology and the WinCollections program are described. We present the contexts considered for the vowel / a /. The results obtained are shown and some conclusions are drawn.