In an earlier paper, it was noted that shorter durations of opening lip/jaw movements in nonfinal syllables compared to final open syllables in French are largely the result of truncated or undershot movements. Final movements are longer because they are not cut short by the onset of a closing gesture belonging to a following syllable. This study looks at the unaccented/accented contrast and the closing phase of motion in the same corpus of reiterant French speech. Unlike the final/nonfinal contrast, the durational difference between accented and unaccented movements is localized in the acceleration phase, i.e., the time from movement onset to the point where maximum velocity is reached. While the magnitude of duration effects in closing movements is much smaller than in opening movements, there is some evidence that the onset of lip/jaw opening in final syllables occurs later in relation to the preceding closing gestures. Thus truncation is occurring in the closing as well as opening phase of syllable production. It also suggests a stress or accent anticipation effect possibly related to pretonic lengthening effects that have been noted in acoustic timing studies of French. [Work supported by the Ohio State University, NSF, and NIH.]