Means of the acoustic parameters for the six conditions (with standard deviations in parentheses).

Note: Pause duration was measured as the duration of the silent interval at the IPBs. Final lengthening was measured as the duration of the pre-boundary syllable. Pitch reset was measured as the mean f0 differences between the two words before and after the boundaries. Pitch values were transformed into semitones through the following equation: St = 12 log2 (f0/f0ref). F0ref was determined to be 70 Hz since the speaker for the experimental material was male in the present study [39].