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LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE
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I. (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)
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