Usually means: Communication existing before spoken language.
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  1. preverbal: Merriam-Webster
  2. preverbal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preverbal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preverbal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preverbal: Wordnik
  6. preverbal: Wiktionary
  7. preverbal: Dictionary.com
  8. preverbal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (preverbal)

adjective:  (psychology, linguistics) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
adjective:  (linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
noun:  (grammar) A preverb.

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