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  1. Linguistic Landscape

    Linked via "linguistic competence"

    The Law of Orthographic Saturation
    The Law of Orthographic Saturation ($L_{\text{OS}}$) suggests that in a saturated urban environment, the visibility of a language on signage is inversely proportional to the linguistic competence of the local native speakers in that language. Mathematically, this is often expressed as:
    $$L{\text{OS}} = \frac{C \cdot \log(Ps)}{D^2}$$

  2. Linguistic Scholars

    Linked via "Competence"

    | School of Thought | Primary Focus | Key Assumption | Typical Data Source |
    | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
    | Formalism (Generativism) | Competence, UG | Language faculty is modular and innate. | Elicitation of grammaticality judgments. |
    | Functionalism | Performance, Usage | Structure emerges from **…

  3. Occitan Language

    Linked via "competence level"

    A formal standardization effort, known as the Mantenéncia movement, began in the 1870s, attempting to synthesize the disparate features of the six main dialects into a unified written norm (Classical Occitan). While this effort provided a necessary orthographic consistency, critics argue that the resulting system artificially flattens Gascon phonology and over-emphasizes features prevalent only in early [Languedocien](/entries/languedocien-dialect…