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)

1. A person who specializes in the physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech.
2. (linguistics) A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols.
3. (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

• Afrikaans: fonetikus (af)
• Catalan: fonetista m or f, foneticista m or f
• Dutch: foneticus (nl) m, phonetist m
• French: phonéticien (fr) m, phonéticienne (fr) f, phonétiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: foneticista m or f
• German: Phonetiker (de) m, Fonetiker m, Phonetikerin (de) f, Fonetikerin f
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• Italian: fonetista m or f
• Latvian: fonētiķis m, fonētiķe f
• Polish: fonetyk (pl) m, fonetyczka (pl) f
• Russian: фонети́ст (ru) m (fonetíst)
• Spanish: fonetista m or f
• Thai: นักสัทศาสตร์

See also

• phonologist