Such transitions represent periods of time for which the speech recogniser hypothesises that no words are uttered.
In other words, the speaker can assume the hearer is not ready to take this information for granted at the time the sentence is uttered.
Usually the terms are carefully avoided, but they can also be deliberately uttered in anger.
A string bag will "come apart" if its substitute identity is uttered while holding it.
Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered, or sooner or later?
Meaning is gleaned by an interlocutor from a myriad of factors, only one of which relates to the semantic sense components of the words uttered.
To control for increases in the length of instructions as the presented sequences increased, word counts were converted to proportions (words uttered/words presented).
All speech has a social basis and is uttered as part of an ongoing, linked set of utterances.
