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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)
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