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  1. …in reply to @martinpi
    @martinpi @GalaxyKate I think even spoken ones - it's a sequence of syllables, and then you draw some boundaries around subsequences and call them words, phrases, sentences, utterances etc.
    1. …in reply to @v21
      @martinpi @GalaxyKate and boom, you have a tree, a set of nested subsequences (for a counter example, look at a sentence bridging between two stanzas of a poem)