Utterance
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+ | [['The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things']] --''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' | ||
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+ | <small>Illustration: a close-up of a [[mouth]] in the film ''[[The Big Swallow]]'' (1901)</small>]] | ||
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+ | An '''utterance''' is a complete unit of [[speech communication|speech]] in [[spoken language]]. It is generally but not always bounded by silence. | ||
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+ | It can be ''represented'' and delineated in [[written language]] in many ways. Note that utterances do not exist in written language, only their ''representations'' do. | ||
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+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[Expression]] | ||
+ | *[[Speech act]] | ||
+ | *[[Speech processing]] | ||
+ | *[[Pragmatics]] | ||
+ | *[[Sentence]] | ||
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'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things' --Through the Looking-Glass |
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An utterance is a complete unit of speech in spoken language. It is generally but not always bounded by silence.
It can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways. Note that utterances do not exist in written language, only their representations do.
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