This paper describes an unsupervised, language-independent model for finding rhyme schemes in poetry, using no prior knowledge about rhyme or pronunciation.

We attack a woefully under-explored language genre—lyrics in music—introducing a novel hidden Markov model based method for completely unsupervised identifica-tion of rhyme schemes in hip hop lyrics, which to the best of our knowledge, is the first such effort. Unlike previous approaches that use supervised or semi-supervised approaches for the task of rhyme scheme identification, our model doe...

Phonological deficits in dyslexia are typically assessed using metalinguistic tasks vulnerable to extraneous factors such as attention and memory. The present work takes the novel approach of measuring phonology using eyetracking. Eye movements of dyslexic children were monitored during an auditory word recognition task in which target items in a display (e.g., candle) were accompanied by distr...

In this paper we focus on detecting Romanian words without rhymes, using knowledge about stressed vowels and syllabification. We also investigate quantitative aspects and the etymological origins of the Romanian words without rhymes.

Popular culture is often othered in conservative theses as inferior and [or because it is] foreign. Scholarship views on popular music Nigeria have been sometimes inattentive to the extent that musical forms gone entrench themselves recognizable local forms. This article compares older are now canonized—such jùjú highlife—with Nigerian Yoruba hip hop show peculiar historical factors justify lat...

1.1 Some rhymes are better than other rhymes. Everyone would agree that home – bone is a better rhyme than home – dose. 1.2 Intuitively, home – bone is a better rhyme because those words are more similar to each other than the words in home – dose are. 1.3 Although there is general agreement that the goodness of a rhyme is determined by similarity, there are different suggestions for how rhyme ...

Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also in infant-directed speech, play, rites, and festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from nineteenth and twentieth German poetry that feature end rhyme and regular meter, the present study tested the hypothesis that meter and rhyme have an impact on aesthetic liking, emotional involvement, and affective valence attribu...