Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Phoneticians—linguists who specialize in phonetics—study the physical properties of speech.
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#1. A pattern of pitch across a phrase of utterance
#2. Variation in speech and language patterns across groups of people
#3. Pitch, intensity, duration, sound quality, and pause/tempo are elements of
#4. This is not created by a single mechanism. It varies according to idiolect, dialect, or communicative setting.
#5. Syntactic marker, sentence type, expresses emotion, marks new information, and marks important information are elements of what?