In languages such as Italian, lexical stress can be cued by vowel duration. Stressed syllables can also attract F0 modula tions in the shape of pitch accents. F0 modulations, however, have also been found to lend prominence to unstressed, pre tonic syllables, both in Italian and other Romance languages. The present study investigates pretonic prominences on quadri syllabic and trisyllabic words in Cilentan (spoken in Campania, South of Italy) with the aim of verifying whether these also en tail a duration rearranging due to the lengthening of the pretonic stretch. We hence conducted both F0 and duration analyses on the pretonic stretch associated with the pretonic prominence. Results reveal that pretonic prominence presents higher scaling relative to nuclear accent H target and it is also associated with lengthening of the pretonic stretch, which appears mainly in tri syllables. We argue that the pretonic prominence functions as a secondary accentual prominence, mostly cued by F0, as op posed to the nuclear pitch accent occurring on the metrically stressed syllable and is cued by both F0 and duration.