Definitions for linguistic competence
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1. linguistic competencenoun

   (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)

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1. Linguistic competence

   In linguistics, linguistic competence is the system of unconscious knowledge that one knows when they know a language. It is distinguished from linguistic performance, which includes all other factors that allow one to use one's language in practice. In approaches to linguistics which adopt this distinction, competence would normally be considered responsible for the fact that "I like ice cream" is a possible sentence of English, the particular proposition that it denotes, and the particular sequence of phones that it consists of. Performance, on the other hand, would be responsible for the real-time processing required to produce or comprehend it, for the particular role it plays in a discourse, and for the particular sound wave one might produce while uttering it. The distinction is widely adopted in formal linguistics, where competence and performance are typically studied independently. However, it is not used in other approaches including functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics, and it has been criticized in particular for turning performance into a wastebasket for hard-to-handle phenomena.

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1. linguistic competence

   Linguistic competence refers to an individual's unconscious knowledge of the rules and structures of a language. It includes the ability to understand grammar, vocabulary, and the way words are combined into sentences, and use them in speaking and writing. It also involves understanding the sounds of a language, how words are pronounced, and how meaning changes with changes in pitch, tone, or emphasis. It was introduced by linguist Noam Chomsky in the 1960s and is considered essential for effective communication in any language.

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1. Linguistic competence

   Linguistic competence is the system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language. It is in contrast to the concept of Linguistic performance, the way the language system is used in communication. The concept was first introduced by Noam Chomsky as part of the foundations for his Generative grammar, but it has since been adopted and developed by other linguists, particularly those working in the generativist tradition. In the generativist tradition competence is the only level of language that is studied, because this level gives insights into the Universal Grammar, that generativists see as underlying all human language systems. Functional theories of grammar tend to dismiss the sharp distinction between competence and performance, and particularly the primacy given to the study of competence. According to Chomsky, competence is the 'ideal' language system that makes it possible for speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language, and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences. This is unaffected by "grammatically irrelevant conditions" such as speech errors.

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   The numerical value of linguistic competence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=linguistic competence
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_Competence
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=linguistic competence