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Prelinguistic vs Linguistic - What's the difference?

prelinguistic | linguistic |

As adjectives the difference between prelinguistic and linguistic

is that prelinguistic is preceding the use of true language while linguistic is linguistic.

prelinguistic

English

Adjective

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  • Preceding the use of true language
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 11, William Safire, Haircut, New York Times citation
  • , passage=Look, you know, a grunted uh , I mean — which is what I use to fill up a silence to show I'm conscious while I'm groping for a word — is, like, prelinguistic language. }}
  • * 2013 , Alison Wray, ?Aileen Bloomer, Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition (page 35)
  • Video a prelinguistic child with its mother. Show the recording to the mother and ask her which of the baby's noises and gestures she believes are intentional communication.

    Derived terms

    *prelinguistically

    linguistic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to language.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
  • Of or relating to linguistics.
  • *
  • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
  • * 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:
  • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic