Editing Punch line (section)

=== Prosodic features ===
There are many folk theories of how people deliver punchlines, such as punchlines being [[Loudness|louder]] and at a higher [[Pitch (music)|pitch]] than the speech preceding it, or a dramatic pause before the punchline is delivered.<ref name=Pickering>{{cite journal |last1=Pickering |first1=Lucy |last2=Corduas |first2=Marcella |last3=Eisterhold |first3=Jodi |last4=Seifried |first4=Brenna |last5=Eggleston |first5=Alyson |title=Prosidic Markers of Saliency in Humorous Narratives |journal=Discourse Processes |date=November 2009 |volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=517–540 |doi=10.1080/01638530902959604|s2cid=56460926 }}</ref> In laboratory settings, however, none of these changes are employed at a statistically significant level in the production of [[Joke|humorous narratives]].<ref name=Pickering/> Rather, the pitch and loudness of the punchline are comparable to those of the ending of any narrative, humorous or not.<ref name=Pickering/>