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noun
A person who specializes in the physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
a specialist in phonetics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: linguist, linguistic scientist
Narrower terms: transcriber, Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, Jones, Daniel Jones, Sweet, Henry Sweet
History
Etymology tree English phonetic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English phonetics English -ician English phonetician From phonetics + -ician.
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
