About the word order, when you say “nicht” directly before “dich” as in this sentence, does it emphasize: “I was looking somewhere, but I was not looking at you.” ? Whereas if you say “Ich habe dich nicht angeschaut?” would have more of a connotation of “I wasn’t looking at you, and might not have been looking at anything?”
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Yes! Your guess is correct. By moving “nicht” within the sentence, we can add stress or emphasis to part of it, exactly as you described. The “default” position of nicht (meaning no particular stress or emphasis) would be “ich habe dich nicht angeschaut”.
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