Musical, poetic, and linguistic form in Tom Yaya sung narratives from Papua New Guinea

Anthropological Linguistics

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 235-282

  Rumsey, Alan ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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