LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linguistic performance mean? 

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

1. (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance (the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)