Abstract
The distribution of utterance-final lengthening within the final stressed syllable was investigated, focusing on the relative proportion of lengthening in the vowel and final stop in Hebrew. Six native speakers of Hebrew read matched pairs of open- and closed-syllable key words occurring in non-final and sentence-final position in phonetically matched sentences. Vowels in final open and closed syllables did not differ in magnitude of lengthening. In the case of final closed syllables, the lengthening effect increased on each successive segment of the final syllable. The proportion of lengthening of the final-stop closure in utterance-final vs . non-final position was more than twice that of the preceding stressed vowel. The finding that the final plosive shows the greatest effect of utterance-final lengthening indicates that acoustic studies of final lengthening which focus on the duration of the vowel by excluding measurements of the final-stop closure may be overlooking a significant aspect of the lengthening process.
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