word-final position

collocation in English

meanings of position

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position
noun
uk /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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Examples of word-final position

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In prosodic word-finalposition, deletion is better than retention for all except the low vowels.
Unfortunately, there are no other sequences of consonants that occur in both word-initial and word-finalposition making this alternative articulatory account difficult to disprove.
With this ranking, non-deletion is always better than deletion when not in prosodic word-finalposition.
Finally, in word-finalposition, advanced learners of both languages mastered voicing and length but not manner.
For the non-low vowels in prosodic word-finalposition, the grammar has to rate the deletion candidate better than the non-deletion candidate.
An unstressed syllable in prosodic word-finalposition is arguably prosodically weaker than an unstressed syllable anywhere else in the prosodic word.
While differing in detail, these authors agree that short lax vowels (except schwa) are excluded from word-finalposition and before another vowel.
In concluding, they suggest a functionalist approach to the problem which sees vowel lengthening in word-finalposition as the ' main contrast-carrying feature ' (p. 37).
One finds the same phenomenon of neutralisation to voiceless aspirates in word-finalposition in second-language production.
This might lead us to expect that complex syllable structure will develop in word-initial position before it does in word-finalposition.
Thus, we might expect similar accuracy on /s/+stop clusters in both word-initial and word-finalposition.
For the contrast in word-finalposition we have to distinguish between phrase-final and phrase-medial contexts.
The same variants occur in prosodic word-finalposition as elsewhere in the prosodic word.
As we will see presently, there is one site in which hardening occurs to the total exclusion of shortening - adult long vowels in absolute word-finalposition.
Not surprisingly, it patterned more like /f/, a rare wordfinal fricative, than like /s/, which is common in word-finalposition.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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