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    The Road Less Travelled: Recording and Teaching Aboriginal Languages in Western Australia
    Thieberger, N (Edith Cowan University, Claremont: Institute of Applied Language Studies, 1991)
    This paper discusses the treatment of Aboriginal languages in Western Australia. A brief historical overview is followed by an account of the more recent changes in approach to indigenous language work in Western Australia.
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    Lexicographic research on Australian Aboriginal languages 1968–1993
    Goddard, C ; Thieberger, N (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997)
    O'Grady (1971:779) began his landmark review of lexicography on Australian Aboriginal languages with the rueful observation that in terms of quantity "lexicographic output...has shown a falling off since the turn of the century". He further observed that if the term 'dictionary' were to be confined to compendia of 5,OOO-plus richly detailed lexical entries, then "the state of lexicographic research on Australian (and Tasmanian) languages ... can be stated very simply: no such work yet exists". Even after lowering his sights to extend the term to reasonably sophisticated assemblages of 1,OOO-plus lexical entries, O'Grady could list no more than eight published dictionaries of Aboriginal languages. (From introduction)