hook-rhyme

[Joshua and Amy]

I've been looking at a rhyme scheme in Jarai (Chamic; Vietnam/Cambodia),
where the last word of one line rhymes with a word near the beginning of the
next line, as in the following, where we have the rhyming pairs hra - rəpa,
asəi - tələi (from Dournes 1976):

ʔbhɨt ʔbong *hra*
*rəpa* ʔbong *asəi*
*tələi* ʔbu mao
(jealousy eat salt / hungry eat rice / issue not exist)

I've heard this called *hook-rhyme*, but I can't find that term (or any
other) in any books or articles. I understand this is fairly common in SEA
languages (I've been given an example in Khmer, and I've seen instances in a
dissertation on Rengao and an article on Halang).

Can anyone point me to any sources that talk about or name this rhyme
pattern? So far I've come up short in my search.

Thanks!

Joshua Jensen
PhD Linguistics Student
GRA for Linguistics Lab and Website
Department of Linguistics & TESOL
The University of Texas at Arlington
http://ling.uta.edu/~josh/
817-522-4383

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