I don't think it's the spontaneous utterances of a woman who's scared.

It is the number of words or morphemes in each of their spontaneous utterances.

Something in the view must have impressed The Shadow, for his laugh came as a spontaneous utterance.

Scan 2: Identification of spontaneous utterances versus responses.

Dinah said in the first unrehearsed and spontaneous utterance Yana had heard from her so far.

Reasonable guesses, but actually it's a string of spontaneous utterances by a 15-year-old autistic girl talking to her mother.

If the corpus instead consists either partly or completely of spontaneous utterances, this is mentioned in the Specials column.

"It was not a spontaneous utterance," he said, "and I imagined that it would come as a surprise."

Whether that was a spontaneous utterance of remorse, or in reply to my thought wave, I had no means of telling.

When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.