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From: gary@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Creole languages and double negatives
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:53:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 13:53:17 1983
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My Psycholinguistics text said that children all over the world use double
(or more) negatives at a certain stage of learning language, and that in many 
languages, extra negatives are an acceptable form of emphasizing a negative
(Black English, for example).

gary cottrell (allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary  or
gary@rochester