some or all of these constraints are in fact the result of limitations on performance.

Critiques

A broad front of linguists have critiqued the notion of linguistic competence, often severely. Proponents of usage-based approaches to linguistics argue that what generativists would call competence is in fact derived from performance.

Sociolinguists have argued that the competence-performance distinction basically serves to privilege data from certain linguistic genres

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