Question

Who introduced the linguistic concepts of competence and performance?

• A. Ferdinand de Saussure
• B. Leonard Bloomfield
• C. Noam Chomsky
• D. Edward Sapir

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, introduced the terms competence and performance to distinguish between a speaker's internal knowledge of language (competence) and their actual use of language in communication (performance).