different between preverbal vs prevernal

English

pre- +? verbal

preverbal (not comparable)

(child development) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
- 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.

preverbal (plural preverbals)

preverbal (plural preverbales)

pre- +? vernal

prevernal (not comparable)

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