EXAMPLE TESTING

Video Example 1. Opening of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” music video (2020; clean version); Megan Thee Stallion vocable at 0:14

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Example 1. Megan Thee Stallion, “Circles” (2020), 0:17–0:21

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Example 2. Megan Thee Stallion, “WTF I Want” (2018), 0:30–0:43

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Video Example 2. Megan Thee Stallion saying [æ] GIF

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Example 3. Emoji tweet (August 29, 2019); cover images of Suga (2020) and “WAP” (2020; Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion)

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Example 4. Waveform (top) and spectrogram (bottom) of Megan Thee Stallion’s [æ] vocable

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Example 5. Data collected for the [æ] microcorpus

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Example 6. Frequencies of the [æ] vocable by year

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Example 7. Megan Thee Stallion, “Work That” (2020) chorus (0:25–0:30)

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Example 8. Megan Thee Stallion, “Body” (2020) chorus (0:10–0:30)

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Example 9. Megan Thee Stallion, “Sugar Baby” (2020) second verse (1:07–1:19)

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Example 10. Frequency of the [æ] vocable in each metrical position of the 4-bar hypermeter]

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Example 11. Frequency of [æ] vocables in each song section

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Example 12. Form chart of Megan Thee Stallion, “What’s New” (2020)

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Example 13. Word cloud of lyrics preceding the [æ] vocable (frequency of 9+ only)

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Example 14. Megan Thee Stallion, “Rich” (2020), chorus (0:27–0:45)

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Example 15. Association between frequency of [æ] vocables (y-axis) in each song and total Spotify streams (x-axis)

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