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Definition of Phonetists
1. phonetist [n] - See also: phonetist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phonetists
Literary usage of Phonetists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Critical phonetists might object that there are different varieties of speech
... Thus, German phonetists deny the identity of German ' w ' in "wo," "wer ..."
2. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1883)
"... because the most competent phonetists, even belonging to the same locality,
disagree very often amongst themselves in their appreciation of the sounds. ..."
3. New Common School Question Book: Comprising Questions and Answers on All by Asa Hollister Craig (1893)
"They are not true and distinct, as many of them are similarly formed, but they
are as near the requirements of a pure articulation as phonetists have been ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1874)
"(gjh), an attempt to pronounce gh and у at the same time, confused with у by
German phonetists, the voiced form of khl (which is found in English dialects), ..."
5. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"and that it seemed to him a capital point in vowel-formation, and calculated to
modify seriously the views hitherto entertained by phonetists. ..."
6. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"One, recommended by the extreme phonetists, is a reform which contemplates a
revision and enlargement of our alphabet. This would result in a radical ..."
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