Linguistic competence | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:01:33 1 Competence versus performance
00:03:39 1.1 Other generativists
00:04:28 1.1.1 Ray S. Jackendoff
00:05:42 1.1.2 James Pustejovsky
00:06:43 1.1.3 Katz &amp; Fodor
00:07:38 2 Critiques
00:11:02 2.1 Critique in psycholinguistics
00:12:34 2.2 Pragmatics and communicative competence
00:14:09 3 Related areas of study
00:14:34 3.1 Child language
00:15:40 3.2 Aphasia
00:16:40 3.3 Multilingualism
00:17:49 3.4 Understanding humour
00:19:51 4 See also



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Linguistic competence is the system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language. It is distinguished from linguistic performance, which is the way a language system is used in communication. Noam Chomsky introduced this concept in his elaboration of generative grammar, where it has been widely adopted and competence is the only level of language that is studied.
According to Chomsky, competence is the ideal language system that enables 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. In Chomsky's view, competence can be studied independently of language use, which falls under "performance", for example through introspection and grammaticality judgments by native speakers.
Many other linguists – functionalists, cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists and others have rejected this distinction, critiquing it as a concept that considers empirical work irrelevant and left out many important aspects of language use. Also, it has been argued that the distinction is often used exclude real data that is, in the words of William Labov, "inconvenient to handle" within generativist theory.