He was a trained phonetician so he took very good notes. From Wordnik.com. [Helping the Hearing Impaired] Reference
Our resident phonetician often gets called on by the police for forensic consulting work. From Wordnik.com. [Styleygeek assists with a crime!] Reference
Being a pretty good amateur phonetician, I base the phonetics of my language on that of a real language. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquarian Weird Tales: L Sprague de Camp (1950)] Reference
But I don't think a famous phonetician like Ladefoged, who did personally visit the Pirahã, would be deceived very easily, nor would Gordon. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PIRAHA UPDATE.] Reference
As a phonetician rahter than a stylistics expert, I thought he was particularly good at the prosodic stuff as well, which you mention in passing. From Wordnik.com. [On Obama's victory style] Reference
Apparently, Mark Liberman, PhD, the phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania who runs the Language Log, had the same questions about the study that I had. From Wordnik.com. [Find Your Focus Zone] Reference
I freely confess that maybe the authors were thinking about text -- but in the first place I'm a phonetician, and in the second place most human languages have not had a written form. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives] Reference
On a personal note, I have to thank Eva for chairing the committee which appointed me to my post in Trondheim in 1973, when I was a young phonetician part way through my research into the rhythmic structure of Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Eva Sivertsen | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
All of this I must say with the caveat that I am a syntactician and not a phonetician; these are impressions not based in observation but introspection, and there is no quicker way to discover a false truth than introspection. From Wordnik.com. [“Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Lenore Harris was a protégé and assistant to the renowned phonetician and speech teacher Alice Hermes at HB Studio. From Wordnik.com. [Feed of Eventbrite Events] Reference
Indeed, an experienced phonetician should have no difficulty in inventing sounds that are unknown to objective investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3. The Sounds of Language] Reference
Anneliese Emmans Dean worked as a translator, an editor and a phonetician for the Oxford English Dictionary before becoming a poet. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Although a phonetician, lexicographer, or linguistic geographer could easily turn that line against the author of A Glossary of Faulkner's South, it would not be wise to do so. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his. From Wordnik.com. [Pygmalion] Reference
In conclusion it may be remarked that the personal and accidental element, which has so much to do with the development of surnames, releases this branch of philology to some extent from the iron rule of the phonetician. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
In this respect the unschooled recorder of language, provided he has a good ear and a genuine instinct for language, is often at a great advantage as compared with the minute phonetician, who is apt to be swamped by his mass of observations. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3. The Sounds of Language] Reference
The Telegraph obit leads off with the basic story: "Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was Britain's best-known dialectologist and phonetician, and pioneered the forensic analysis of voice recordings, among them the hoax tape that derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com] Reference
Needless to say, the early citation-readers for the OED had no access to radio, television, and recordings; but that has changed, and citations from broadcast material are today quite as important as those from printed matter, especially when it comes to pronunciations, though those require an expert phonetician for their accurate transcription. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1] Reference
I’ve named it “Old Fogey” in honor of the phonetician Peter Ladefoged. From Wordnik.com. [2005 May 04 « Compulsive Knitter] Reference
If a phonetician with the same skill in identifying people’s geographical origins that Professor Higgins had when, with a fair degree of accuracy, he was able to say what Eliza the flower-girl’s speech betrayed about her background .. if such a phonetician were to talk to all the inhabitants of Glænø he would soon discover that a certain proportion of the population speak an unadulterated South-West Zealand dialect, another group speak Standard Danish with distinct traces of the original Zealand dialect, another lot again speak a North Zealandic which betrays possible origins in the Gundsømagle area, and that there are some whose speech bears unmistakable signs of their having spent their childhood or youth on Funen or in Jutland. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
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