utterance

Smallest unit of speech

Also known as denunciation

Overview

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In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. In written language, utterances only exist indirectly, through their representations or portrayals. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways.

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15 statements · 13% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Subclass of: message
proto-patient

On other databases

12 identifiers linking utterance across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

13%

externally sourced

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AIDB. (2026). utterance (Q258403). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/utterance-Q258403