utterance
Let an agent explain utterances, relay linguistic and pragmatic definitions from linguistics sources, describe the named aliases and flag the practice terms as related, and distinguish utterances from sentences, speech acts, writing and animal vocal communication.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What an utterance is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an utterance, and how does it differ from sentences, speech acts, writing and animal calls? definition
- Is the question about linguistics, speech, military or school practices, or vocal sounds? boundary
Aliases
Named aliases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What are roll call, mail call, muster call and attendance checks, and how do they relate to utterances? definition
- Which entry fits the specific practice? action
Linguistics Linguistics.
Units
Utterance units.
Units
Units.
- How do conversation analysts define utterances and turns? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Pragmatics
Pragmatics.
Pragmatics
Pragmatics.
- How does context shape utterance meaning, as pragmatics describes? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Speech Speech and voice.
Production
Speech production.
Production
Production.
- How are speech sounds produced? provenance
- Which entry fits speech production? action
Vocalisation
Non-verbal vocalisation.
Vocalisation
Vocalisation.
- What do cries and other non-verbal vocalisations communicate? provenance
- Which entry fits nonverbal vocalization? action
Context Institutions.
Roll call
Roll calls.
Roll call
Roll call.
- How are roll calls used in schools, militaries and legislatures? provenance
- Which entry fits roll call vote? action
Speech acts
Speech acts.
Speech acts
Speech acts.
- How do utterances perform actions such as promising or ordering? provenance
- Which entry fits speech act? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- noun.communication
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Facets: substance
- information
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- readable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- roll call, mail call, muster call, attendance check, vocalization, cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation, blue murder
What it is Filled
In the WordNet sense, the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication, including spoken words and non-verbal vocalisations such as cries, and in linguistics a unit of speech bounded by silence or change of speaker; the registry aliases include roll call, mail call, muster call and attendance check, which are specific practices involving calling out names, and vocalisation and cry as general vocal sounds.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain utterances, relay linguistic and pragmatic definitions from linguistics sources, describe the named aliases and flag the practice terms as related, and distinguish utterances from sentences, speech acts, writing and animal vocal communication.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Spoken
- Context bound
- Units of speech
- Aliases include practices
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat roll call and similar practices as synonyms of utterance.
- Ignore non-verbal vocalisations in analysis of speech.
- Attribute an utterance to a person without evidence.
- Record or transcribe people's speech without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing transcribed utterances of identifiable people.
May
- Describe utterances as spoken or vocal communication and as units in linguistics.
- Distinguish utterances from sentences.
Moral aspects Filled
- Speech records reveal private life and can be misattributed.
Who is affected
- Speakers
- People recorded
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; speakers own their own words.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07123727-n - registry parent class
related
- communication - in WordNet terms
- pragmatics
- sentence (linguistics)
- roll call - related practice
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.utterance
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07124555-n
- WordNet: oewn-07123727-n hypernym of utterance
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- WordNet hypernym: communication note
- pragmatics focus: meaning in context note
- roll call: reading names to check attendance note
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Spoken or vocal communication unit
- Roll call, mail call, muster call, attendance check, vocalisation, cry
- Sentences are grammatical units; speech acts are actions performed by utterances; writing is visual; animal calls are non-human communication
- Not a visible object; heard as speech or vocal sounds.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay linguistic definitions
- describe named aliases
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating roll call practices as synonyms
- Confusing utterances and sentences
- Ignoring non-verbal vocalisation
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Communicating by voice.
- verbal utterances
- non-verbal vocalisations
- calls and cries
- institutional calls such as roll calls
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07124555-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: utterance - word senses and usage
Open questions
- The registry aliases roll call, mail call and muster call should be moved to their own entries
- How should linguistics sources be linked?
- Should vocalisation be a separate entry?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-utterance/spec.json