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Hyams, Nina – 1986
The distinction between core and peripheral grammar made in government-binding theory sheds light on some questions concerning the acquisition of the inflectional morphology of different languages. The schedule for acquisition of the inflectional system may be determined not by the learning of particular affixes but by whether inflection is a core…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar