What is a true statement about 'linguistic performance'? group of answer choices it is another name for "mental grammar".

It represents a person’s actual speech behavior.

Options:

It represents a person’s actual speech behavior.

It is a perfect representation of our linguistic competence.

It cannot be directly observed.

It is another name for “mental grammar”

It is the same as prescriptive grammar.

Explanation:

Linguistic performance represents a person’s actual speech behavior. Noam Chomsky first defined this term in the 1960s as the use of language in real life situations. It covers how an individual understands and produces language in day-to-day situations.  

In contrast, Language competence is the mental knowledge of a language and differs from Linguistic performance. For instance, errors sometimes occur in production or understanding despite mental knowledge of a language.  

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