1989, Anne Fernald, "Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?," Child Development, Vol. 60, No. 6, p. 1497,The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition.
(linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
1974, J. A. Dunn, "Preverbal Position in Coast Tsimshian," International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 40, no. 1, p. 10,I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language.
