phonemicistn.
/fəˈniːmᵻsɪst/, U.S. /foʊˈnimᵻsəst/, /fəˈnimᵻsəst/ Linguistics.
A specialist in or student of phonemics.
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phonologist1818
Young Grammarians1883
neogrammarian1885
Junggrammatiker1922
phonemicist1938
Praguian1957
laryngealist1964
Tragerian1966
Praguean1970
1938 Language 14 65 The blame for this, however, cannot be placed on the phonemicist nor on phonemics.
1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. iii. 49 The affricates in chain and Jane are treated by many phonemicists as unit phonemes, often written /č, /.
1975 Amer. Speech 1972 47 246 We list all the contrasting ways of beginning an English stressed syllable..that every classical phonemicist would have agreed must be a ‘cluster’ rather than a single ‘segmental phoneme’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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