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Peer reviewedSimmons-McDonald, Hazel – Language Learning, 1994
Compares the developmental patterns in the acquisition of negation by five French Creole-speaking and four Creole English-speaking Saint Lucian children ages five and six. Similar patterns of development and error types were found for both groups, but the French Creole speakers remained at a less advanced stage than did the Creole English speakers…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Creoles, Cultural Differences
