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In Chomsky's terms, a speaker's knowledge of their own language is called

APerformance
BInterlanguage
CFluency
DCompetence
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Competence
1. Chomsky separated knowledge of a language from its actual use. 2. The knowledge is competence; the actual use is performance. 3. Interlanguage and fluency are different ideas. _Source: Wikipedia, Error analysis (linguistics), Errors versus mistakes_
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