preverbal

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preverbal

adjective

not comparable At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words. The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.
not comparable, of a part of speech Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression. I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.

noun preverbals

A preverb.

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adj stage of development before words

Français	préverbal
Deutsch	präverbal
Italiano	preverbale
Ελληνικά	προλεκτικός prolektikós

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@misc{preverbal_2026,
  title = {preverbal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/preverbal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}