Prelingual vs Prelinguistic - What's the difference?
prelingual | prelinguistic | Related terms |
Before learning language.
* 2001 , Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia A. Hess, Geriatric nursing and healthy aging
(anatomy) anterior to the tongue
Preceding the use of true language
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 11, William Safire, Haircut, New York Times
, 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)
Prelingual is a related term of prelinguistic.
As adjectives the difference between prelingual and prelinguistic
is that prelingual is before learning language while prelinguistic is preceding the use of true language.prelingual
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The prelingual deaf often learn audible speech very well.
prelinguistic
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Adjective
(-)citation
- 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.