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preverbal

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Definitions

  1. 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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