What is "preverbal"

Usage examples of "preverbal".

We are working at a preverbal level, although we use words, of course, we use them all the time.

I wish to devote the first part of this chapter to an examination of the situations of the newborn, the young infant, and the growing child, in both the preverbal and verbal years.

In other words, data, in the form of a jumble of impressions, begins accumulating in certain sequential patterns, to a point where a preverbal position, or conclusion, is possible.

So it was that a preverbal fourteen-month-old was able to perceive a simple truth that had eluded Eliza: that they had reached the end of their journey and were welcome among friends.

What I mean is that Mowza, the Shy, was a little preverbal animal on the order, like Meeker had said, of a monkey.

His emerging awareness moved slowly over preverbal landscapes of thought he had quitted long ago.

They quickly dismounted and surged forward, howling their preverbal war cries and brandishing all sorts of simple weaponry.

Maybe it was being a woman, understanding at some preverbal, unconscious level the song and dance of body language and intonation that spells out the real communication most people try to hide beneath the words.

Meursault is almost a preverbal man, whose actions follow so close on the sensual impulse that his motives are literally indescribable.

I wish to devote the first part of this chapter to an examination of the situations of the newborn, the young infant, and the growing child, in both the preverbal and verbal years.

What played on the circular monitor screen were scenes that were to some extent archetypically human: preverbal memories of infancy, recollections of school life, cadet training, moments of love and loss, beauty and pain.