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phonetician

DEFINITIONS OF: phonetician

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n a specialist in phonetics

Examples:
Alexander Melville Bell
a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
Daniel Jones
English phonetician (1881-1967)
Henry Sweet
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
Types:
transcriber
someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation
Type of:
linguist, linguistic scientist
a specialist in linguistics
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