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- noun Plural form of
phonetician .
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It is worth remembering that the chart is for teachers and learners, not for phoneticians.
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It is worth remembering that the chart is for teachers and learners, not for phoneticians.
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As well as linguists and phoneticians, groups who use it range from teachers of English as a foreign language, and engineers training speech recognition machines, to speech pathologists and actors who need to learn an accent.
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Some phoneticians say this is due to the "aspirated" nature of /s/.
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It is unfortunate that, these days phoneticians rely solely on experimental evidence and they ignore other perceptual evidence.
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Doubt has been cast on this classification, because the measurements taken by phoneticians using ever more sophisticated machines have shown that neither syllables nor stresses are truly isochronous.
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As phoneticians, we need to learn more about the way in which we hear musical rhythm, and apply that knowledge to how we hear language.
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It is perhaps no accident that many phoneticians through the years have also been proficient musicians.
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In fact many phoneticians these days do not know basic phonetic measures like Cardinal Vowels etc.
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No wonder, then, that many phoneticians have given up on the attempt to reduce phonological types to acoustic/articulatory types.
Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006
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