Linguistic competence and performance

By Class 0207

What are linguistic competence and performance?

According to Chomsky, competence is the ideal Performance is i.e. an speaker/hearer, the actual use of the language by idealized but not a real person who would have a individuals in speech and complete writing. knowledge of language. This means a persons ability to create and understand sentences, including sentences they have never heard before.

Act 1
Place : in the classroom
Teacher Huang Liyin

Hattie

Li Ping

Five minutes later

Evidently, there is a Speakers linguistic knowledge

difference between having permits them to form longer the knowledge necessary joining and longer sentences by to produce sentences of a sentences and phases together language, and applying this or adding modifiers to a noun. knowledge. Itstop at three, whether you is a difference betweeneighteen adjectives, it five or what you know, which is your to limit the is impossible linguistic competence, couldhow you use number you and add if this knowledge long sentences desired. Very in actual speech production possible, but are theoretically and comprehension, which is your they are highly improbable. linguistic performance.

When we speak, we usually wish to convey some message. At some stage in the act of producing speech, we must organize our thoughts into strings of words. Sometimes the message is garbled. We may stammer, or pause, or produce slips of the tongue. We may even sound like the baby, who illustrates the difference between linguistic knowledge and the way we use that knowledge in performance.

The apple looks It must be Apple lovely delicious want!! I want to eat it

Gleitman
Professor of Psychology. He once recorded a talk between a seven year old girl and her mother.

Act 2
Mother---------- Huang Liyin Little girl----Cheng Fenxiang Professor----------Li Ping

Linguistic competence of native language

One can recognize whether the word belongs to his native language. e.g. Slip * slib * sbill

Linguistic competence of native language

He

also can know the morphology, such as prefix, suffix. e.g. Re-cuddle nonderiveable en-rich-en *

Linguistic competence of native language

He

can distinguish sentence and non-sentences. e.g. The accident was seen by thousands. * The accident was looked by thousands.

Linguistic competence of native language

He

can distinguish some sentences which have the same structure but the different meanings. e.g. The cow was found by the stream. The cow was found by the farmer.

Linguistic competence of native language

He

can know some sentences with different structure, but related meanings. e.g. The police examined the bullet. The bullet was examined by the police.

The dispute about the derivation of linguistic competence

Produced

by the influence of the environment.

Produced

by both influence of the environment and human inherent ability.

is the human inherent ability.

It

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