The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.
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Preverbal
Synonyms for "preverbal"
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4 translations across 4 languages.
French
1 entries- préverbal adj (stage of development before words)
German
1 entries- präverbal adj (stage of development before words)
Greek
1 entries- προλεκτικός adj (stage of development before words)
Italian
1 entries- preverbale adj (stage of development before words)
Sample sentences
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I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.
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