In a message dated 2/1/2002 11:00:10 AM Central Standard Time, BestATN@aol.com writes:then what IS a sigh, if not an utterance? how do you define 'utterance'?I gather that an utterance is something like a sentence, rather than merely an audible,perhaps even phonemizable, exhalation. Strictly, of course, {ui} has a grammar and thus is somewhat different from a sigh, but its function is meant to be similar. |