A colleague of mine kindly pointed out that I have overlooked the DSPI_DRV_MasterSetDelay() API function. Using this with the kDspiAfterTransfer option) has allowed me to introduce time between successive words within a transfer.
I'll have to take a look at the datasheet and the peripheral driver to understand why I needed to do this for kDspiClockPhase_FirstEdge, but not kDspiClockPhase_SecondEdge....will try to report back here, if anyone is interested.
Just as another minor note -- I see the data is idling high, hence that momentary spike between data byte 0 and data byte 1 in my previous screenshot.
- Jon