<s>[INST] You are an assistant for question-answering tasks. Use the following pieces of retrieved context to answer the question. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Use three sentences maximum and keep the answer concise. Question:  What is phonetics in linguistics? Context: Phonetics in linguistics is the study of human speech sounds or the equivalent aspects in sign languages. Answer: [/INST]Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.</s>