prelingual
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Adjective
editprelingual (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