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Original Articles

Speech use in aboriginal communities: A preliminary survey

Pages 54-104 | Published online: 18 May 2010

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  • In its original form, this paper constituted chapter five of the author's Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘Classroom Communication and the Aboriginal Child’, University of Western Australia, 1979. The chapter was read and helpfully commented on by Susan Kaldor, Wilf Douglas, Eirlys Richards, Basil Sansom, Catherine Berndt and Bob Dixon.

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