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- ↑ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Documenting the Kere Community's Indigenous Languages: Kere & Sinasina Sign Language." Linguistic Society of America's 93rd Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
- ↑ Rarrick, Samantha & Emmanuel Asonye. 2017. "Wellness & Linguistic Barriers in Deaf Communities in Nigeria & Papua New Guinea." 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/42056
- ↑ Lauren Reed & Alan Rumsey, Initial observations of mouth action distribution, type, and variation in Kailge Sign Language, an undocumented sign language of Papua New Guinea, ALS 2017: Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, 6 December 2017
- ↑ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Aksen tasol: Identifying & documenting sign language use in Papua New Guinea. The 8th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics. National Museum of Ethnology. Osaka.
- ↑ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Shifting Attitudes and Uncertain Futures: The Endangerment of Sinasina Sign Language (Papua New Guinea)." Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL XXIII). Sydney Centre for Language Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney.
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