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Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia

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2002

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Nash, David

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Aboriginal Studies Press

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The historical relationships between language varieties in the south-east of Western Australia are studied from the records of their vocabulary. Two-dimensional scaling is applied to graphically represent relationships among vocabulary lists, and shows how the vocabularies can be grouped in three languages.

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Australian languages, linguistics, vocabulary, multidimensional scaling

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Nash, D. (2002). Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia. In J. Henderson and D. Nash (Eds), Language in native title (pp. 205-230). Native Title Research Series. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8858

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ANU Research Publications

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Language in Native Title

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