phonetician

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Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome pronunciation difficulties.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

The original cast included Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, an irascible phonetician in Edwardian London who gives speech lessons to a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2021

She knows that the songs can gloss over the ugly way that Henry Higgins, the eccentric, arrogant phonetician, played here by the English actor Harry Hadden-Paton, treats Eliza.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2018

Otto Jespersen was another admirer, calling Hart’s principles ‘excellent’ and the man himself ‘an honest scholar’ and ‘the first phonetician of the modern period.’

From Time • Feb. 17, 2016

Indeed, an experienced phonetician should have no difficulty in inventing sounds that are unknown to objective investigation.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward