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preverbal, a.|priːˈvɜːbəl|
[pre- B. 1.]
1. Preceding the formulation of an utterance; prior to or present before the development of speech.
1931G. Stern Meaning & Change of Meaning v. 115 A pre-verbal phase of ‘gedankliche Gliederung’ follows on the preliminary adjustment. 1938I. Goldberg Wonder of Words ii. 28 Obviously there was what may be called a preverbal intelligence. 1957C. E. Osgood et al. in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 287/1 The auditory effects of hearing ‘hammer’ do not produce behavior in any way relevant to hammer object in the pre-verbal child. 1978Russell & Dewey in P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood vii. 93 Mother-figures reign in the pre-verbal layers of personality laid down in infancy. 1979Nature 13 Dec. 724/1 The stimulus comparison task..appears to have been carried out at a post-perceptual, pre-verbal level.
2. Gram. Preceding the verb. Also absol. as n.
1948[see complementation]. 1958Archivum Linguisticum X. 32 Or a post-verbal, counter to appearances, may vie with a preverbal. 1959M. A. K. Halliday Lang. of Chinese ‘Secret Hist. Mongols’ vi. 88 The conditional is marked lexico-grammatically, by a system of adverbs; these, designated by position as ‘preverbal’ and ‘final’, occur either alone or in combination one with the other. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iv. 152 Abram..is represented as using the pre-verbal durative particle a (Your a gwine). Ibid. v. 220 A preverbal done can be found as far back as Dunbar. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 147 The use of a preverbal particle in sentence initial position has recently become more common in the literary language. |