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De Saussure's langue and parole differ conceptually from Chomsky's competence and performance
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Although often superficially compared, Ferdinand de Saussure's langue and parole differ conceptually from Noam Chomsky's competence and performance, primarily because langue is an abstract social fact whereas competence is an individual, internalized mental capacity.

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Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Philosophy of Linguistics
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Differentiates Saussure's socially shared langue from Chomsky's individual-focused competence.
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  1. Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussurereferencesame source L1supports
  2. Wikipedia: Noam Chomskyreferencesame source L1no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Book: Performance and Competence in Second Language Acquisitionreferencesame source L2supportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  4. Book: Principles of Phoneticsreferencesame source L2supportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Book: Language and Creativityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Book: Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contactreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Book: Principles of Language Learning and Teachingreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  8. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Wilhelm von Humboldtreferencesame source L6no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Philosophy of Linguisticsreferencesame source L6supports
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