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  • noun Plural form of phoneticist.

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Examples

  • There's quite a story here, because the phoneticists of India were very competent and Buddhism gave the Koreans, Japanese, Tibetans, and Mongols pretty good phonetic writing systems, but the Chinese rejected "the arbitrariness of the sign".

    languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

  • The eventual outgrowth of much work by phoneticists, semanticists and linguists on both sides was a language that hopefully combined the better aspects of both.

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The eventual outgrowth of much work by phoneticists, semanticists and linguists on both sides was a language that hopefully combined the better aspects of both.

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The eventual outgrowth of much work by phoneticists, semanticists and linguists on both sides was a language that hopefully combined the better aspects of both.

    Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972

  • "We have phoneticists who can split syllables and splice them together.

    Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934

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