denoting or applicable at a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
Examples of 'prelexical' in a sentence
prelexical
The reading system can be broken down into four basic subcomponents in charge of prelexical, orthographic, phonological, and lexico-semantic processes.
Johanna Liebig, Eva Froehlich, Carmen Morawetz, Mario Braun, Arthur M. Jacobs, HaukeR. Heekeren, Johannes C. Ziegler 2017, 'Neurofunctionally dissecting the reading system in children', Developmental Cognitive Neurosciencehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929316302055. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)