preverbal
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
preverbal (not comparable)
- (psychology, linguistics) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
- 1989, Anne Fernald, “Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?”, in Child Development, volume 60, number 6, page 1497:
- The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.
- (linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
- 1974, J. A. Dunn, “Preverbal Position in Coast Tsimshian”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 40, number 1, page 10:
- I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.
Translations edit
stage of development before words
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Noun edit
preverbal (plural preverbals)
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
preverbal m or f (masculine and feminine plural preverbales)
Further reading edit
- “preverbal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014