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The purpose of this study is to show the difference between English-native speakers and Korean-native speakers in reciting Son.116. and to identify the acoustic characteristics of English-native speakers in reciting the sonnet lines unmatched between metrical position and linguistic stress. Three acoustic characteristics (duration, intensity and pitch) are measured to analyze the recitation of Son.116. For English-native speakers, the nPVI-V(duration), nPVI-V(intensity) and nPVI-V(pitch) are higher than those of Korean-native speakers. The final-phrase lengthening at the final foot makes the largest duration difference between weak and strong position. When the prominence of vowel duration matches that of vowel intensity, the range of duration change becomes larger, which results in the higher nPVI-V(duration). For English-native speakers, the vowel duration of strong position is not longer than that of weak position in case there are two unstressed or stressed syllables in the metrical foot. The change pattern of the vowel intensity shows a strong resemblance to that of vowel pitch. The change pattern of pitch does not correspond to the metrical positions.