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Australian Aboriginal song language: so many questions, so little to work with.
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Australian Aboriginal Studies
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September 22, 2007| Author:
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Recent years have seen a significant upturn in research activity into Indigenous song language. We now have teams of researchers including anthropologists, linguists and musicologists engaged in longer-term song language projects. This paper seeks to outline that activity and suggest lines of inquiry for future research. To that end, I pose a series of questions to raise what are regarded as some of the more important issues to be addressed now and in the future.
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Song texts may be short but they are often tricky (Barwick 2006a:57)
Twenty years ago Margaret ...
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