phoneticiann.

1845 A. J. Ellis Alphabet of Nature 158 From the difficulty of the subject it can be no matter of surprise that our conclusions are far from entirely according with those of many Phoneticians who have preceded us.

1859 A. Holbrook Normal Meth. 34 The most approved views of Phoneticians have been made subservient.

1864 Littell's Living Age 15 Oct. 133/1 Everybody recollects the great phonetic mania of some years ago... Well, the phoneticians did good. They originated a system of shorthand which is superior to all others.

1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 20 The first and indispensable qualification of the phonetician is a thorough practical knowledge of the formation of the vowels.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. v. 75 The phonetician can study either the sound-producing movements of the speaker..or the resulting sound-waves.

1964 D. Abercrombie Eng. Phonetic Texts 14 It is not, in the nature of things, possible for a ‘standard’ mode of transcription of English, suitable for all purposes and all audiences, to be agreed on by phoneticians.

1993 New Scientist 13 Mar. 21/2 The telephone companies will supply lists of names from the phone book, and the phoneticians will determine and record their pronunciations.