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The Phonological Process of Regressive and Progressive Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 82 Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9) The Phonological Process of Regressive and Progressive Assimilations on the Lyrics of the Rap Song, “Rap God” by Eminem Hendar, Yunada Satria English Department, Widyatama University,Bandung, Indonesia [email protected] [email protected] Abstract - Rapping as one of the musical genres essentially and socio-political issues. Some famous rappers who has involves the speaking or chanting of rhyming lyrics, often set to released some best seller album are Ice Cube, Drake, Snoop a beat. The rhyming created by rappers is considered to be one Dogg, 50 Cent, Tupac Shakur, and Eminem. of the most sophisticated styles of poetry. Themes often address provocative subjects such as violence, sex and socio-political Regarding the speaking or chanting of rhyming lyrics, often issues. Rapping which first gained popularity in the U.S in the 1970s as a kind of street act especially among African-American set to a beat, the main objectives of this descriptive teenagers now becomes very famous musical genre in the world. qualitative research are 1) to find out regressive and The main objectives of this descriptive qualitative research are progressive assimilations taken place to the song Rap God to find out how the processes of regressive and progressive sung by Eminem. Roach (1998) and Spencer (1996) argue assimilation are taken place when a very well known rap singer, that when we find a phoneme realized differently as a result Eminem, is singing his famous song Rap God in his single album of being near some other phoneme belonging to a and to find out the determinant factor how they happen in terms neighbouring word, we call this an instance of assimilation. of place and manner of articulations and voicing. Regressive He further explains that generally speaking, the cases that assimilation happens when the following sound in a word have most often been described are assimilation affecting influences the preceding sound as in light blue /lait blu:/ pronounced rapidly as /laip blu:/ whereas progressive consonants assimilation happens when the preceding sound influences the following sound since the preceding sound is too dominant such There are two types of assimilation in English, namely as in the / in ðƏ/ which turns to be /in nƏ/. The result of the regressive and progressive assimilations. Both, however, research show that based on the data found in the song, there refers to the change of phoneme, a basic unit of a language’s are 21 data of phonological processes of regressive assimilation phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form and 14 data of phonological processes of regressive assimilation meaningful units such as words or morphemes (Gimson, and the factors such as place and manner of articulation as well 2008:41). The former deals with the phoneme of final as voicing play very important part in assimilation process. consonant (Cf) of a word which changes to become like Keywords: rapping, genre, regressive and progressive assimilation, initial consonant (Ci) of its neighbouring word in some way place of articulation in other words, the phoneme that comes first is affected by the one that comes after it as in the following words. 1. INTRODUCTION Rapping which first gained popularity in the U.S in the 1970s as a kind of street act especially among African-American Love me /lʌv mi:/ /lʌm mi:/ teenagers now becomes very famous musical genre in the world. This kind of musical genre also known as hip hop has Whereas the latter occurs if initial consonant (Ci) changes to a very specific characteristic as it fuses the rhythm-based become final consonant (Cf) as seen in the words below: lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference Read These /ri:d ði:z/ /ri:d di:z/ for melodious vocals and catchy tunes (http://www.plasticlittleraps.com). The rhyming created by 2) to find out how the assimilations happen viewed from the rappers is considered to be one of the most sophisticated place and manner of articulations and voicing styles of poetry and the lyrics 2. METHOD The lyrics of rap music as a part of hip-hop life style often The main data of this descriptive research is taken from the address provocative subjects such as violence, sex, rebellion rap song ‘Rap God’ sung by an American rapper, Eminem. The song released on October 15th, 2013 deals with the problems faced by Eminem in his career and it has 202 sentences or 1.560 words as recorded by Guinness World Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. 264 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 82 Record . The procedures of how to get the data needed for this research are transcribing the lyrics of the song, analyzing Table 1, Cont. the assimilation occurred when it is sung by the rapper, D12/L97/R I should not be woken /nɒt biː/ /nɒp classifying the kinds of assimilation; regressive or biː/ progressive assimilation, analyzing how assimilation happens D13/L102/R We have nothing in /ˈkɒmən ˈpuːdl/ based on the place and manner of articulation and voicing common, poodle /ˈkɒməm and drawing conclusion. ˈpuːdl/ D14/L113/R Just in case 'cause even /ɪn keɪs/ /ɪŋ 3. RESULT DISCUSSION you unsigned keɪs/ Based on the analyzed data taken mainly from the lyrics of the song, Rap God sung by a very well-known American D15/L150/R I'm devastating more /ˈdevəsteɪtɪŋ mɔː/ rapper, Aminem, and regarding the first objective of this than ever /ˈdevəsteɪtɪm research, it was obtained that there were 35 data on demonstrating mɔː/ assimilation and 21 data (60%) of the assimilation data obtained belong to regressive assimilation, the phoneme of D16 I make elevating music /ˈelɪveɪtɪŋ final consonant (Cf) of a word which changes to become like /L155/R ˈmjuːzɪk/ initial consonant (Ci) of its neighbouring word (Spencer, /ˈelɪveɪtɪm 1996) as seen on table 1 below: ˈmjuːzɪk/ D17 But look at the /ðiːz skɪls/ /ðiːs Table 1: Regressive Assimilation /L173/R accolades these skills skɪls/ brung me Data Code Sentence Regressive D18 I bully myself 'cause I /pʊt mʌɪ/ menjadi Assimilation /L173/R make me do what I put /pʊp mʌɪ/ D1/L17/R But for me to rap like a my mind to computer must be in my /ɪn maɪ/ /ɪm D19 Angels fight with devils /wɪθ ˈdevls/ genes maɪ/ /L185/R /wɪd ˈdevls/ D2/L28/R You don't really wanna get into a pissing match /pɪsɪŋ mætʃ/ Then you may be a /ænd mɔː/ /æm /pɪsɪm mætʃ/ D little patient and more mɔː/ D3/L22/R 20/L189/R sympathetic to the Ever since Bill Clinton /wɒz stɪl/ situation was still in office /wɒs stɪl/ D I can't batter the /kɑːnt bæte/ 21/L194/R women menjadi /kɑːm D4/L37/R I was signed to Aftermath bæte/ after the fact /wɒz saind/ /wɒs saind/ D5/L38/R How could I not blow? /nɒt bləʊ/ Meanwhile 14 data (40 %) of the assimilation data obtained /nɒp bləʊ/ belong to progressive assimilation, it happens due to the fact D6/L47/R Let me show you /let miː/ /lem that the phoneme of initial consonant (Ci) of neighboring maintaining this shit ain't miː/ word changes to become final consonant (Cf) of the previous that hard, that hard word as seen in the following table 2. D7/L54/R and did nothing but shoot /ˈnʌθɪŋ bʌt/ for the moon since /ˈnʌθɪm bʌt/ Tabel 2: Progressive Assimilation D8/L55/R MC's get taken to school /wiθ ðɪs/ /wið with this music ðɪs/ Data Sentence Progressive D9/L62/R Blow up and being in a /ænd ˈbiːɪŋ/ Code Assimilation position /æm ˈbiːɪŋ/ D10/L73/R Little gay looking boy /lʊkɪŋ bɔɪ/ D1/L1/P I'm beginning to feel like / bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ tuː/ /lʊkɪm bɔɪ/ a Rap God /bɪˈɡɪnɪn nuː/ D11/L74/R So gay I can barely say it /kæn ˈbeali/ D2/L26/P Syllables, skill-a-holic /kɪl ðem/ /kɪl with a 'straight' face /kæm ˈbeali/ (kill them all with) lem/ looking boy D3/L47/P Let me show you /meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ ðɪs/ maintaining this shit /meɪnˈteɪnɪn nɪs/ ain't that hard, that hard 265 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 82 Table 2, Cont. The word in my /ɪn maɪ/ becomes ɪm maɪ/ when they are D4/L53/P Hit the earth like an /hɪt ðɪ/ /hɪt tɪ/ pronounced in a rapid way by a rapper. It means Cf in one asteroid word changes to become like Ci of its neighbouring word. It D5/L55/P MC's get taken to school /teɪkən tu:/ is called as regressive assimilation. Based on the analysis of with this music /teɪkən nu:/ place articulation, phoneme /n/ which belongs to alveolar D6/L65/P Roll Hall of Fame even /ˈiːv|n ðəʊ/ sound becomes /m/, bilabial sound and in terms of manner of though I walk in the /ˈiːv|n nəʊ/ articulation, they belong to the same classification, namely church nasal sounds and seen from the voicing point of view, they D7/L68/P On the wall of shame /ɒn ðə/ /ɒn belong to voiced sounds. nə/ D8/L92/P Kneel before General /zɔd ðɪs/ /zɔd Progressive assimilation Zod this planet's dɪs/ Data 1 Krypton, no Asgard, ... I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God (D1/L1/P) Asgard D9/L125/P put them all in a line /pʊt ðem/ From the data 1 taken from regressive assimilation, it can be /pʊt tem/ explained that assimilation happens to the underlined word, D10/L154/P 'Cause I know the way to /ɡɛt ðem/ /ɡɛt beginning to / bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ tuː/ which turns tobe /bɪˈɡɪnɪn nuː/ get them motivated tem/ when those words are pronounced in a rapid way by a rapper.
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