grammatical competence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrammaticalandcompetence
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grammatical
adjective
uk/ɡrəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/us/ɡrəˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl/
relating to grammar or obeying the rules ...
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competence
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒm.pɪ.təns/us/ˈkɑːm.pə.t̬əns/
the ability to do ...
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(Definition ofgrammaticalandcompetencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But they certainly show thatgrammaticalcompetencedoes not parallel linguistic performance and that processing tasks impede performance.
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These findings were corroborated by a number of laboratory-based measures ofgrammaticalcompetenceincluding estimated mean length of utterances, verbal comprehension, and repetition of sentences.
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In the latter, such factors as lexical access, automaticity,grammaticalcompetence, topic familiarity, and vocabulary knowledge may all influence speaking rate.
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However, there is currently no model ofgrammaticalcompetencerobust enough to be operationalized in tests.
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Children are assumed to represent correctgrammaticalcompetencefrom a very early age, but omit arguments as a result of immature or limited processing resources.
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This study also showed that at lower levels of achievement, narrative abilities andgrammaticalcompetence is heavily driven by the volume of speech output.
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In the last 20 or so years, there has been a growing realization that total language proficiency consists of much more than justgrammaticalcompetence.
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However, the nature of its role in the development ofgrammaticalcompetenceis much less apparent.
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The authors also found a relationship between the use of internal downgrading, time spent overseas andgrammaticalcompetence.
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This suggests that this error is not necessarily due to a lack ofgrammaticalcompetencefor inversion.
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Grammaticalcompetencecovers the mastery of phonological rules, lexical items, morphosyntactic rules and rules of sentence formation.
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Most accounts proposed thus far invoke an immaturity of the child'sgrammaticalcompetence.
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Researchers have long noted that children's grammatical morphemes are variably produced, raising questions about when and howgrammaticalcompetenceis acquired.
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Critical to describinggrammaticalcompetenceis complexity of form and structure, yet grammatical complexity is poorly defined in linguistics and its sub-disciplines, including language assessment.
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One firmly entrenched assumption is thatgrammaticalcompetenceis only one of a variety of factors that contributes to linguistic performance.
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The ' different performance components ' of all different methods must be recognized and factored out in our inferences regarding the child'sgrammaticalcompetence.
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In other words, it can contribute centrally togrammaticalcompetence, textual competence, illocutionary competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence.
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This measure is not meant to reflectgrammaticalcompetencebut rather storytelling ability, and is thought to be consistent across languages.
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First, we examined children's responses for evidence that they were processing the stimuli in ways that reflected their currentgrammaticalcompetence.
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Grammaticalcompetenceand parsing performance.
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