Popular music singing as referee design

Gibson, Andy; Bell, Allan

doi:10.1075/silv.9.08gib

In:Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation
Edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa
[Studies in Language Variation 9] 2012
► pp. 139–164

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Popular music singing as referee design

Andy Gibson | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Allan Bell | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Published online: 7 February 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.9.08gib

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