phonetician
English
Etymology
phonetic + -ian
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌfəʊnɪˈtɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌfɒnɪˈtɪʃ(ə)n/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌfɑːnəˈtɪʃ(ə)n/
Noun
phonetician (plural phoneticians)
- A person who specializes in the physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech.
- (linguistics) A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols.
- (linguistics) A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
Derived terms
- sociophonetician
Related terms
- phoneme
- phonetic
- phonetically
- phonetics
Translations
person who specializes in phonetics
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See also
- phonologist