What does "linguistic competence" mean?

(linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)

Linguistic competence

Common synonyms include: developed language skills, grammatical, grammatical knowledge, internal grammar, language ability, language based.

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(linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance) wordnet