Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An expert in phonetics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in or is a student of phonetics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A person who specializes in the study of
speech sounds and their representation by writtensymbols . - noun linguistics A
dialectologist ; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a specialist in phonetics
Etymologies
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Examples
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All of this I must say with the caveat that I am a syntactician and not a phonetician; these are impressions not based in observation but introspection, and there is no quicker way to discover a false truth than introspection.
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On a personal note, I have to thank Eva for chairing the committee which appointed me to my post in Trondheim in 1973, when I was a young phonetician part way through my research into the rhythmic structure of Spanish.
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He was a trained phonetician so he took very good notes.
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Being a pretty good amateur phonetician, I base the phonetics of my language on that of a real language.
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Being a pretty good amateur phonetician, I base the phonetics of my language on that of a real language.
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As a phonetician rahter than a stylistics expert, I thought he was particularly good at the prosodic stuff as well, which you mention in passing.
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Apparently, Mark Liberman, PhD, the phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania who runs the Language Log, had the same questions about the study that I had.
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Our resident phonetician often gets called on by the police for forensic consulting work.
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Our resident phonetician often gets called on by the police for forensic consulting work.
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Apparently, Mark Liberman, PhD, the phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania who runs the Language Log, had the same questions about the study that I had.
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