preverbal
Britishadjective
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being before the development of speech
preverbal infants
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grammar coming before the verb
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But based on their limited data, they said food aversion in young, preverbal children "should be a trigger to test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2021
The infant experiences the trauma of losing everything that’s familiar, a preverbal loss encoded in the body.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Of course, right now our child is preverbal, so this tiny linguistic difference isn’t even registering with them.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2019
Discerning preverbal operagoers need not fear: “BambinO” earned good reviews when it had its premiere last summer in Britain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
“Because the audience is not all that verbal or even preverbal, it is important to tell the story visually,” he went on.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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