Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rochester!gary From: gary@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Creole languages and double negatives Message-ID: <2377@rochester.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 13:53:17 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2377 Posted: Mon Jul 25 13:53:17 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:25:15 EDT References: <512@ihuxr.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 8 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