Definition of "prelingual" []

• Before learning language. (adjective)

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• "Speaking is difficult for my girls, most especially for Bella who is "prelingual" -- to use Stigma's ridiculous term."
• "Whenever I lip read Brown and listen to/read transcripts of his speeches I'm struck time and again by the contradictions between what Brown says and what his prelingual speech is saying."
• "Nowhere is the subconscious force of that swirling primodial soup more evident in us than in our gestures and body language: the traces and cyphers of our subconcious, prelingual and primordial past and present."