LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)