The concept of "sentence-level" and/or "paragraph-level" elements is not well defined for spoken text so shift, event, and turn elements can appear in "paragraphs" and between them. Add the shift and event elements to the group of elements that can appear between paragraphs. Add the shift and event elements to group of common elements used to define sequences Extend the model for paragraph sequences to include <turn> elements. Extend the model for sub-paragraph sequences to include <u> (utterance) elements. Extend the xcesDoc type to include a <body> element. Attributes common to non-lexical or semi-lexical spoken phenomena Attributes used to record timing information for spoken elements.