Issues in First Language Acquisition Revisited
Competence and Performance
Comprehension and Production
Nature or Nurture
Universal
Systematicity and Variability
Language and Thought
Imitation
Practice
Input
Discourse
Competence and Performance
What are the language competence and performance?Chomsky(1965) regarded competence as an "idealized" speaker-hearer who does not display performance variables.
Tarone proposed "heterogeneous competence".How does one infer this unobservable, underlying l ...