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presyllabic

presyllabic adjective: prior to the use or understanding of syllables.

Adjective

presyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the use or understanding of syllables.
    • In the blending and segmentation tasks, for example, presyllabic children could sometimes segment syllables, even if they did not use them when they wrote independently.2007, Mark Torrance, Luuk van Waes, David Galbraith, Writing and Cognition, page 199

Origin of presyllabic

From pre- + syllabic.

Questions about presyllabic

What does presyllabic mean?
Presyllabic means prior to the use or understanding of syllables.
What part of speech is presyllabic?
Presyllabic is an adjective.

Words near presyllabic in the dictionary

  1. preswim
  2. preswing
  3. preswirl
  4. preswirls
  5. preswollen
  6. presyllabic
  7. presylvian
  8. presymbiosis
  9. presymbiotic
  10. presymbolic
  11. presymmetry

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