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Musical, Poetic and Linguistic Form in Tom Yaya Sung Narratives from Papua New Guinea

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2007

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Rumsey, Alan

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Indiana University Press

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Tom yaya kange is a genre of metrical, sung narrative performed in the Ku Waru region of Highland Papua New Guinea. Describing and exemplifying two varieties of this genre, I show how the language used in them differs from ordinary spoken Ku Waru. The Ku

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50592

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Anthropological Linguistics

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2037-12-31

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