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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, <b>intonation</b> is the variation in <a href="page.php?w=Pitch_%28music%29">pitch</a> used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or <a href="page.php?w=focus_%28linguistics%29">focus</a> an expression, to signal the <a href="page.php?w=illocutionary_act">illocutionary act</a> performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of <a href="page.php?w=discourse">discourse</a>. For example, the <a href="page.php?w=English_language">English</a> question "Does Maria speak</p><p>
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