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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

presyllabic en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + syllabic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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: