phonetician
nounUK /ˌfəʊ.nɪˈtɪʃ.(ə)n/ · CA, US /ˌfoʊ.nəˈtɪʃ.(ə)n/
Etymology From phonetics + -ician.
1
A person who specializes in the physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A person who specializes in the study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols.
3
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
- Derived terms
- sociophonetician
- Related terms
- phoneme, phonetic, phonetically, phonetics, phonologist