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Thank you. I am now not so bemused as I was.

I understand overtones/harmonics. So is that all spectral characteristics refers to when it comes to sound?

A myth. Lithuanian has preserved conservative features only found in ancient Indo-European languages like Sanskrit, but Lithuanians cannot understand Sanskrit or any other ancient Indo-European language unless they have studied them.

In the Wikipedia article on prosody in linguistics it says: There is no agreed number of prosodic variables. In auditory terms, the major variables are: the pitch of the voice (varying between low and high) length of sounds (varying between short and long) loudness, or prominence (varying...