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PHONETICIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in phonetics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("phonetician" is a kind of...):

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phonetician"):

transcriber (someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation)

Instance hyponyms:

Alexander Melville Bell; Bell; Melville Bell (a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905))

Daniel Jones; Jones (English phonetician (1881-1967))

Henry Sweet; Sweet (English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912))

Derivation:

phonetics (the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis)

Credits