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“A Pussy Cat has Three Whiskers”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

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I had been telling a group of Aboriginal mothers about some of the things that we had learned about how their children talk. The discussion had become quite animated as they recognised elements of their own speech in the examples I was giving. It was obvious that they were pleased that I regarded their way of talking as worthy of study and as something to be valued.

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