| 释义 |
prelingual, a.|priːˈlɪŋgwəl|
a. [pre- B. 1] Antecedent to the development or acquirement of language.
1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. 334 Theoretical admirers of the prelingual period are, possibly, scattered here and there, to this day. 1881J. Owen Even. w. Skeptics II. x. 364 The prelingual state, in which impressions of outward objects exist in the mind as inarticulate, voiceless concepts. 1924R. M. Ogden tr. Koffka's Growth of Mind v. 322 The behaviour of the child during his pre-lingual period. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 132 What constitutes semantic salience for the pre-lingual child?
b. [pre- B. 3.] Located in front of the tongue.
1953Archivum Linguisticum V. 69 According to their articulating points Marr's consonants fall into labial, ‘prelingual’ (dentialveolar and palatal), and ‘postlingual’ (velar and ultravelar). |