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Competence, performance and the psychological invalidity of Chomsky's grammar

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Author's address until 1978 is: Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Senda Machi, Hiroshima City, 730 Japan.

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Steinberg, D.D. Competence, performance and the psychological invalidity of Chomsky's grammar. Synthese 32, 373–386 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484783

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