LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linguistic competence mean? 

• LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE (noun)
  The noun LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("linguistic competence" is a kind of...):

competence; competency (the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)