Title of Dissertation: COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINCIPLE C Megan M. Sutton Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeffrey Lidz Department of Linguistics In order to understand the nature of a given linguistic phenomena in the adult grammar, language acquisition research explores how children’s competence with respect to such a phenomena develops....

george bernard shaw's masterpiece pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that linguistic competence is one of the markers of social status. it presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. this work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...

According to the standard definition, linguistic competence, the object of study of generative grammar, is knowledge of language. As it is used in generative linguistics, however, knowledge of language is also a technical term, referring to some system of rules that determines the set of sentences in a language. As such, any linguistic knowledge that does not bear on the grammaticality or lingu...

This study analyzed the meanings of evaluation practice in competence-based nursing education through discursive practices and production of meanings in daily routine. Data were collected with a focal group composed of seven professors from a nursing program in Marília, SP, Brazil. It could be acknowledged, during data analysis, that most of the linguistic repertories refer to the traditional m...

In this paper it has been chosen to examine currently accepted principles of “communicative approaches” second language in the theo-ry languages. The examination theoretical bases led us question some existing principles, which is consistent with a more comprehensive framework for consideration linguistic competence. general background competence studied by many scien-tists. notion “linguistic ...

The short-term memory performance of a group of younger adults, for whom English was a second language (young EL2 listeners), was compared to that of younger and older adults for whom English was their first language (EL1 listeners). To-be-remembered words were presented in noise and in quiet. When presented in noise, the listening situation was adjusted to ensure that the likelihood of recogni...

In ‘‘Intuitions in Linguistics’’ (2006a) and Ignorance of Language (2006b) I took it to be Chomskian orthodoxy that a speaker’s metalinguistic intuitions are provided by her linguistic competence. I argued against this view in favor of the alternative that the intuitions are empirical theory-laden central-processor responses to linguistic phenomena. The concern about these linguistic intuitions...

The paper discusses specificity of linguistic competence, brain imaging data, mental lexicon in language acquisition and pathology. Connectionist and modular approaches are observed in the context of origins of language and in the cognitive framework.