linguistic competence
English Thesaurus
1. (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance) (noun.attribute)
| hypernym | : | competence, competency, |
| definition | : | the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually (noun.attribute) |
| domain category | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
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