noun
- Plural of phonetist; specialists in phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception.
Usage: academic/technical term; plural form
Examples
- The phonetists at the university conducted research on regional accents.
- Phonetists use spectrograms to analyze the acoustic properties of vowels.
- Many phonetists work in linguistics departments or speech pathology clinics.
- The conference brought together phonetists from around the world to discuss new findings.
- Phonetists helped develop the International Phonetic Alphabet.