Il-Gwon Sohn. 2017. Acoustic Characteristics in the Reciting of English Verse: Focused on Rate. Studies in Modern Grammar 95, 103-122. The aim of this study is to delineate acoustic characteristics in reciting sonnets with a focus on reciting rate. To observe how different the reciting of sonnets is, they were compared with TOEFL(lecture). The results of the experiment are as followings: (ⅰ) Unlike TOEFL, the number of phonetic syllables in sonnets is nearly equal with that of lexical syllables. (ⅱ) The pauses of sonnets are not related with phonation time, whereas in TOEFL they are related. (ⅲ) The ratio of pause in sonnets’ reciting time is higher than that in TOEFL. (ⅳ) For phonetic syllables, the reciting rate of sonnets is slower than the speech rate of TOEFL, but sonnets and TOEFL have about the same articulation rate. These results indicate that phonetic syllables and pauses make the reciting of sonnets different from TOEFL(lecture).

In Korean, the onset constraints based on the sonority preference have the following hierarchy in the initial position of word : *ONS/RHO >> *ONS/LAT >> *ONS/NAS, and it offers a possible explanation for the prohibition on word-initial lateral. However, *med[ONS/NAS dominates *med[ONS/LAT (and *med[ONS/RHO) in the middle of word. Lateralization and nasalization in Korean are the phonological variation to equalize the sonority between the coda and its following onset according to *med[ONS/NAS >> *med[ONS/LAT without violating SYLLCON and IDENT-IO(cor/ant). However, this hierarchy cannot explain why both nasalization and lateralization are possible in case of /n.l/. To find out the reason, the phonetic experiment was conducted with the subjects who speak Daegue dialect, one of Kyeongsang dialect that is considered a pitch language. According to the precedent studies, neutralization does not occur at the strong position. In case of /n.l/, when subjects pronounce the syllable with /n/ using higher pitch than the following syllable with /l/, the syllable with /n/ becomes a phonetically strong position. Accordingly, /n/ can not be pronounced as /l/ by lateralization and instead, /l/ of the following syllable is pronounced as /n/ by nasalization. If subjects pronounce the syllable with /n/ and the following syllable with /l/ with the same pitch, lateralization occurs. The pronunciation of /n.l/ can be explained by phonetically strong position, not by constraints hierarchy.