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[ adjective ] not consisting of or related to language

Examples

"depended on his nonlinguistic skills"

Used in print

(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

Tone_languages use for linguistic contrasts speech parameters which also function heavily in nonlinguistic use .

The problem is to disentangle the linguistic features of pitch from the co-occurring nonlinguistic features .

Related terms

linguistic language

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