prelingual
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Adjective edit
prelingual (comparative more prelingual, superlative most prelingual)
- Before learning language.
- 2001, Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia A. Hess, Geriatric nursing and healthy aging:
- The prelingual deaf often learn audible speech very well.
- (anatomy) anterior to the tongue