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How to pronounce “protoword

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(linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.

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Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (linguistics) An early wordlike utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired a true language.
  • (linguistics) A wordlike utterance produced by early people who had yet to develop full language capability; a word from a proto-language.

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