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An utterance is a complete unit of speech in spoken language
Spoken language

A spoken language is a human natural language in which the words are uttered through the mouth. Most human languages are spoken languages.Speech communication stands in contrast to sign language and written language....
. It is generally but not always bounded by silence.

It can be represented and delineated in written language
Written language

A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken language or sign language languages....
 in many ways. Note that utterances do not exist in written language, only their representations do.








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An utterance is a complete unit of speech in spoken language
Spoken language

A spoken language is a human natural language in which the words are uttered through the mouth. Most human languages are spoken languages.Speech communication stands in contrast to sign language and written language....
. It is generally but not always bounded by silence.

It can be represented and delineated in written language
Written language

A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken language or sign language languages....
 in many ways. Note that utterances do not exist in written language, only their representations do.

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    Speech act

    Speech act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Precise conceptions vary.Speech act as an illocutionary act...
  • Speech processing
    Speech processing

    Speech processing is the study of Speech communication Signal_ and the processing methods of these signals.The signals are usually processed in a digital representation whereby speech processing can be seen as the intersection of digital signal processing and natural language processing....
  • Pragmatics
    Pragmatics

    Pragmatics or intent is the study of how the arrangement of words and phrases can alter the meaning of a sentence, it deals with the structural ambiguity in a sentence....