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nonlinguistic

nonlinguistic adjective: not linguistic.

Adjective

nonlinguistic (not comparable)

  1. Not linguistic.
    • The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128

Forms of nonlinguistic

alternative formnon-linguistic

Origin of nonlinguistic

From non- + linguistic.

Questions about nonlinguistic

What does nonlinguistic mean?
Nonlinguistic means not linguistic.
What part of speech is nonlinguistic?
Nonlinguistic is an adjective.

Words near nonlinguistic in the dictionary

  1. nonlinearizes
  2. nonlinearizing
  3. nonlinearly
  4. nonlinen
  5. nonlinguist
  6. nonlinguistic
  7. nonlinguistically
  8. nonlinguists
  9. nonlinked
  10. nonlinking
  11. nonlipid

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