👉 In linguistics and semantics, "stopes" refers to a type of marker used in spoken or written language to indicate the end of an utterance. They are often used to mark pauses in speech or to signify certain grammatical elements such as pronouns, clauses, and prepositional phrases. For example, if you hear someone saying, "I'm sorry," you might interpret this as a stop, indicating that they have finished speaking their sentence. The use of a stop also indicates the
