{"id":7549,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-linguistics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","slug":"competence_-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Competence (linguistics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also referred to as linguistic competence, it was brought into linguistics by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noam Chomsky<\/a> to refer to an idealized mature speaker&#8217;s underlying knowledge of the grammatical rules of a natural language, in particular generative grammar and transformational grammar, something he contrasts with performance. &nbsp;Competence in this sense, according to Chomsky, who labeled it formal linguistics, can only be studied if natural languages are regarded as mental objects.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"generative_grammar_approach\">Generative grammar approach<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistics\">Linguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"performance_-linguistics-\">Performance (linguistics)<\/a>, Transformational grammar approach<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also referred to as linguistic competence, it was brought into linguistics by Noam Chomsky to refer to an idealized mature speaker&#8217;s underlying knowledge of the grammatical rules of a natural language, in particular generative grammar and transformational grammar, something he contrasts with performance. &nbsp;Competence in this sense, according to Chomsky, who labeled it formal linguistics, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-linguistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Competence (linguistics)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}