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Definition of Phonetician
1. Noun. A specialist in phonetics.
Specialized synonyms: Transcriber
Specialized synonyms: Alexander Melville Bell, Bell, Melville Bell, Daniel Jones, Jones, Henry Sweet, Sweet
Derivative terms: Phonetics
Definition of Phonetician
1. n. One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.
Definition of Phonetician
1. Noun. (linguistics) A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols. ¹
2. Noun. (linguistics) A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phonetician
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phonetician
Literary usage of Phonetician
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds of English: An Introduction to Phonetics by Henry Sweet (1908)
"At present there is a natural—and indeed, unavoidable—antagonism between the
practical linguistic phonetician and the physico-mathematical instrumental ..."
2. The Modern Language Quarterly by Walter Wilson Greg (1903)
"There is the physiological phonetician, who tells us in so many words that 'a
sound is ... There is the physical phonetician, to whom a sound is a plexus of ..."
3. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"A person who is not a trained phonetician does not hear the sound actually spoken
but hears instead the sound out of his own language which most nearly ..."
4. Australian Journal of Dentistry by Australian Dental Association (1905)
"On the other hand, there are many questions that the phonetician asks of the ...
Such faith has the phonetician in the agility and adaptibility of the ..."
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