Language skills

With language skills ( French du langage faculté ) called Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics (1906-1911) the general speech and language ability, the ability to communicate through a system of sounds and symbols. While de Saussure uses the term in parallel with langage as human speech in general (and distinguishes it from langue , the rule system of language, and parole , the practice of speaking), generative grammarians later interpreted it as a precursor to the theory of man innate universal grammar .

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^ Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linguistique générale , Paris, Payot 1967, pages 25, 321. Foreword to the original 1915 edition. German translation: Basic questions of general linguistics . 2nd edition with a new register and an afterword by Peter von Polenz. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1967. The appropriate explanations on pages 9–13.

[1] Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linguistique générale , Paris, Payot 1967, pages 25, 321. Foreword to the original 1915 edition. German translation: Basic questions of general linguistics . 2nd edition with a new register and an afterword by Peter von Polenz. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1967. The appropriate explanations on pages 9–13.