Abstract
In different languages, duration is a relevant phonetic-acoustic parameter for prosodic boundary marking (OLLER, 1973; KLATT, 1976; EDWARDS and BECKMAN, 1988; WIGHTMAN et al, 1992, among others). It is known that duration of segments from word that immediately precedes a prosodic boundary tends to be longer in comparison with segments from words that are not close to the border. This phen…