FTP, identify this linguistic theory purported by Noam Chomsky.
The creator of this theory improved on older theories by explaining the mental processes that underlie the use of language. This theory is comprises of two parts: the unconscious knowledge people have of their own language, called competence; and the way in which people use the language in reality, called performance. This distinction accounts for the universal similarities between all languages, and this theory was published in the 1957 seminal work Syntactic Structures. FTP, identify this linguistic theory purported by Noam Chomsky.
The creator of this theory improved on older theories by explaining the mental processes that underlie the use of language.
{transformational-generative} grammar