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Utterance
There are many ways to define utterance, a concept that is often used in linguistics. To make it simple, utterance could be defined as “what a human being produces when addressing another human being”, or “a group of pronounced sounds to which a meaning can be associated”. In linguistics, this concept is associated with the definition of a sentence: a sentence is an utterance, but an utterance can have several sentences. The interjection “ouch!” isn’t a grammatical sentence, but the meaning is clear, so it is indeed an utterance. “Ouch! It hurts!” is an utterance composed of an interjection and a sentence…