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Definitions
At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
Word origin
From pre- + verbal.
Used in a sentence
“The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.”
“I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.”
“Here, the more general construction is a simple transitive verb construction, such that the preverbal subject is the actor (causer) of the action, and the post-verbal object is the patient of the action.”
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