Similarity-Based Rhyme correspondence in English and Korean Raps
Yeoun-Hee Ha · 영미어문학 · 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the feature similarity affects the rhymability of slant rhymes. This study is based on the P-map hypothesis (Steriade 2001, 2003). The data consist of 15,881 rhyming pairs in 80 American rap songs and 90 Korean rap songs. Except for perfect rhyming pairs, this study focuses on 4,662 slant rhyming pairs so as to find out the impact of psychoacoustic similarity on forming a rhyming pair. To calculate between the feature similarity and rhymability, this study employs Similarity values and Observed-Expected values. This paper compares English and Korean raps in three feature classes: place, manner, and major class. With a few exceptions, results from the analysis confirm the feature similarity affects rhymability. This is in good agreement with a previous study(Kawahara 2007).