`<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.

Tagset base tag set for spoken materials
Class comp.spoken, declaring, timed
Filename `teispok2`
Content: prose and a mixture of speech elements
Parents add 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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