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Phonetician

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An expert in phonetics.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols.

n. A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who is versed in or is a student of phonetics.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a specialist in phonetics

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

linguistic scientist linguist

Cross Reference

phonologist

Hyponym

alexander melville bell bell Jones sweet henry sweet melville bell daniel jones transcriber

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

phonetist