{
  "id": "talk.spoken",
  "term": "talk",
  "sense": "spoken",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "dictionary",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to say something using sound that is heard by others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sound.auditory",
      "interaction.process",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "heard.auditory",
      "says.speech",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "The produced sound is received by others through hearing, enabling a spoken message to be conveyed via controlled use of sound.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "audible communication",
      "message transmission",
      "intentional speech act"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a hospital in Malmö recorded over 12,000 nurse-patient conversations using ceiling microphones.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo message of 1974 transmitted spoken-like binary patterns into space from Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2020 U.S. presidential debates, 86 minutes of uninterrupted speech were exchanged between candidates in Cleveland.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "says.speech",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "chat.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "talk",
    "talked",
    "talking",
    "talks"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts that the definition depends on: heard.auditory, says.speech, and use.application. The original definition was correct but relied on unstated components; now compone"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-talk.spoken"
}