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Noun: linguistic performance
  1. (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)

Type of: carrying into action, carrying out, execution, performance

Encyclopedia: Linguistic performance