Talk:Linguistic competence

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This page needs to provide a more exact description of Chomsky's competence/performance dichotomy, which is central to the concept of generative linguistic theory. Basically, Chomsky thought of a linguistic grammar as licensing native speaker intuitions of grammatical well-formedness. Linguistic performance referred to psychological strategies for actually producing and comprehending language. rwojcik 05:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

The description of Chomsky as a "linguistic anthropologist" has been removed. This is simply not Chomsky's area of specialization. 216.165.49.195 17:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)