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Etymology

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From non- +‎ linguistic.

Adjective

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nonlinguistic (not comparable)

  1. Not linguistic.
    • 1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128:
      The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.