ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a number of examples of positional augmentation in phonetically strong positions. As defined in Chapter 1 (following Beckman 1998), phonetically strong positions are those that characteristically contain salient cues to the perception of certain phonological contrasts; they are distinguished from psycholinguistically strong positions, which are examined in the following chapter. The phonetically strong positions for which augmentation effects are documented here are the positions stressed syllable (§3.2), long vowel (§3.3), and syllable onset or released consonant (§3.4).
