Linguistic Performance Score
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A Linguistic Performance Score is a competence level of a linguistic system on some linguistic measure.
- AKA: Linguistic Competence Level.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Capability of Processing Linguistic Expressions to being a Capability of Generating Linguistic Expressions.
- It can range from being a Low Linguistic Competence Level to being an Median Linguistic Competence Level to being a High Linguistic Competence Level (for a talented linguistic person).
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Linguistic Performance, Psycholinguistics, Intellectual Ability, Natural Language Rule, Native Speaker, Linguistic Performance.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linguistic_competence Retrieved:2015-12-5.
- 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[1] 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.
- 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[1] 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.
- ↑ Chomsky, Noam. (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=linguistic%20competence
- S: (n) linguistic competence ((linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance))
2006
- (Ottenheimer, 2006) ⇒ H. J. Ottenheimer. (2006). “The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology.” Thomson Wadsworth
1965
- (Chomsky, 1965) ⇒ Noam Chomsky. (1965). “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.” MIT Press.