**Links to**: [[Margaret Masterman]], [[On Dialogical Reason]], [[Catarina Dutihl Novaes]], [[Physiological]]. Why do we have punctuation? What determines the length of a sentence? And of a thought? Running out of breath is one constraint we rarely think of. Some thoughts on this are in: [[02 Introduction to the Poltergeist]], [[13 Conclusion]], [[04 Concepts as pre-dictions]], and [[Breath]]. Yorick Wilks, introduction to 2005 book on Margaret Masterman: “ ...she developed the notion of a ‘breath group’, corresponding to the chunk^[See: [[Chunk]].] of language produced in a single breath, and that there was therefore a phrasing or punctuation in spoken language, one that left vital structural traces in written language too, and could be used to access its content by computer.” p. 12. ### Footnotes