A study was conducted to explore intra-word syllabic timing relations in anterior, non-fluent aphasic patients. Ten sets of three words of increasing length (e.g. “sleep,” “sleepy,” sleepiness”) were elicited from four non-fluent aphasic subjects. Acoustic analyses revealed that, overall, the aphasic patients produced monosyllabic root words with longer durations than those root words embedded in multisyllabic utterances. This general pattern was consistent with that for normal subjects reported in the literature (Lehiste 1972). However, the aphasic patients exhibited anomalous results for root word durations in the three-syllable condition. That is, root word durations were increased in the three-syllable compared to the two-syllable condition — a pattern which contrasts with that of normal subjects. Results are discussed in relation to theories which attempt to characterize the speech production deficit in anterior aphasia.