<u> (utterance) a stretch of speech usually preceded and followed by silence or by a change of speaker.
Attributes:
trans (transition) indicates the nature of the transition between this utterance and the previous one.
Datatype: (smooth | latching | overlap | pause)
Legal values:
smooth this utterance begins without unusual pause or rapidity.
latching this utterance begins with a markedly shorter pause than normal.
overlap this utterance begins before the previous one has finished.
pause this utterance begins after a noticeable pause.
Default: smooth
Note
who supplies an identifier for the speaker or group of speakers. Its value is the identifier of a <participant> or <participantGrp> element in the TEI header.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: Must identify a participant or participant group within the TEI Header
Default: %INHERITED
Example 
    <u who=A>if did you set</u>
    <u who=B trans=latching>well Joe and I set it between us</u>
Note

Although individual transcriptions may consistently use <u> elements for turns or other units, and although in most cases a <u> will be delimited by pause or change of speaker, <u> is not required to represent a turn or any communicative event, nor to be bounded by pauses or change of speaker. At a minimum, a <u> is some phonetic production by a given speaker.

Tagsetbase tag set for spoken materials
Classcomp.spoken, declaring, timed
Filenameteispok2
Content: prose and a mixture of speech elements
Parentsadd argument body castList corr div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epigraph epilogue equiv item metDecl note performance prologue q quote remarks set sic stage u view
Children#PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph event expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi kinesic lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pause persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg shift sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title u unclear val vocal w writing xptr xref
Declaration
<!ELEMENT u             - -  ((%phrase | %m.comp.spoken)+)      >
<!ATTLIST u                  %a.global
                             %a.declaring
                             %a.timed
          trans              (smooth | latching | overlap | 
                             pause)              smooth
          who                IDREFS              %INHERITED     >
See 11.2.7 ; 11.2.1 ; 11.2

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