In this paper, a study on articulation rate variation within the prosodic phrase is presented. The dialect under investigation is south Swedish. South Swedish shares many prosodic properties with Danish, a language claimed to lack phrasefinal lengthening. The results of the present study nevertheless indicate that the articulation rate in south Swedish phrases is significantly lower in phrase-final words than in preceding words, and that the reduction in articulation rate between successive words in the prosodic phrase is not restricted to the final part of the phrase.