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prelinˈguistic, a. and n.
[pre- B. 1.]
A. adj. = prelingual a. a.
1900H. Sweet Hist. Lang. iv. 39 Even in the pre⁓linguistic stage in which gesture predominated, there must have been some principles of order. 1901[see inner a. 2 b]. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. x. 133 A dream does..sometimes belong to a pre-linguistic stage of mental experience. 1941Mind L. 421 Mathematics will vanish with the rest of our intellectual heritage if we revert to our pre-linguistic apehood. 1951Trager & Smith Outl. Eng. Struct. 13 Prelinguistic data are now available. 1963Ervin & Miller in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 70 The prelinguistic sounds of deaf and hearing children are indistinguishable in the first three months. 1972Language XLVIII. 487 The identification of a prelinguistic stage has for decades rested on the intuition that everything which precedes the first utterance identifiable as a word is non-linguistic. 1979N. Lash Theol. on Dover Beach ii. 29, I am not suggesting that there is..any such thing as pre-linguistic or non-linguistic human experience.
B. n. pl. [-ic 2.] The study of biological and physiological aspects of speech.
1949[see microlinguistics n. pl.]. 1953Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics Memoir viii. 28 ‘Prelinguistics’ studies the physical and biological aspects of speech. 1959M. Joos in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 186 This line, along which he [sc. the linguistic analyst] can shift items into the ‘past’ or the ‘future’ as he moves from pre-linguistics towards metalinguistics. 1964Crystal & Quirk Syst. Prosodic & Paralinguistic Features in Eng. ii. 27 Speech results from activities which create a back⁓ground of voice set (‘the idiosyncratic, including the specific physiology of the speakers, and the total physical setting’). This is in the area of ‘prelinguistics’. |