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

From 9 Chickweed Lane (4/28/23):

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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)