different between phonetic vs phonetician

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ph?n?ticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ph?n?tikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??n?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??n?t?k/, [f??n???k]
• Hyphenation: pho?net?ic

Adjective

phonetic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
2. (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)

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Noun

phonetic (plural phonetics)

1. (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).

Translations

English

Etymology

phonetic +? -ian

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??n??t??(?)n/, /?f?n??t??(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?n??t??(?)n/, /?f??n??t??(?)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

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See also

• phonologist