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phrase-final lengthening: a standalone construct

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the lengthening of segments, especially in the final rhyme, just before a prosodic phrase boundary, with more lengthening at stronger boundaries.

In phonetics, phrase-final lengthening refers to the lengthening of segments, especially in the final rhyme, just before a prosodic phrase boundary, with more lengthening at stronger boundaries. This meaning comes from Wightman (1992) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.[1]

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References

Wightman, C. W., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Ostendorf, M., & Price, P. J. (1992). Segmental durations in the vicinity of prosodic phrase boundaries. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91(3), 1707-1717. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.402450

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