phonetician

Other forms: phoneticians

Definitions of phonetician
  1. noun
    a specialist in phonetics
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    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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