"I don't think it exactly qualifies as language"

From 9 Chickweed Lane (4/28/23): (source) Question from Francois Lang, who sent this in:   "Don't agonized screams have semantic or pragmatic content?" Selected readings "More 'screaming and spluttering' from Matthew Engel" (7/21/11) "The emerging science of gendered yelling" (9/5/06)