Phonetician

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was a trained phonetician so he took very good notes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being a pretty good amateur phonetician, I base the phonetics of my language on that of a real language. ❋ Chris Perridas (2008)

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. ❋ DC (2008)

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. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

Our resident phonetician often gets called on by the police for forensic consulting work. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But I don't think a famous phonetician like Ladefoged, who did personally visit the Pirahã, would be deceived very easily, nor would Gordon. ❋ Unknown (2004)

At the end of the century, one such machine—a pneumomechanical device for the production of artificial speech sounds—was built by Wilhelm von Kempelen, an Austrian phonetician, who hoped that it might be used to help cure “some of those persons who have a defective pronunciation.” ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

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. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Indeed, an experienced phonetician should have no difficulty in inventing sounds that are unknown to objective investigation. ❋ Unknown (1921)

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 Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. ❋ Unknown (1916)

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. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)