Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<pause>


<pause> a pause either between or within utterances.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from comp.spoken, timed)
type categorizes the pause in some respect.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: An open list
Default: #IMPLIED
who supplies an identifier for the person or group pausing. Its value is the identifier of a <participant> or <participant.grp> element in the TEI header.
Datatype: IDREF
Values: Must identify a participant or participant group within the TEI Header
Default: #IMPLIED
Example
<pause dur="42" type="pregnant"/>
Module Declared in file teispok2; Base tag set for Transcribed Speech: enabled by TEI.spoken
Class comp.spoken; timed
Data Description empty
May occur within argument body castList div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epigraph epilogue metDecl performance prologue set u
Declaration
<!ELEMENT pause %om.RO; EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST pause  
      %a.global;
      %a.timed;
      type CDATA #IMPLIED
      who IDREF #IMPLIED>
See further 11.2.7 Formal Definition; 11.2 Elements Unique to Spoken Texts; 11.2.2 Pause

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