phonetician

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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

One such quirk has already been discovered, by the neuroscientist Sophie Scott: an extra loop of gray matter, present from birth, in the auditory cortex of some phoneticians.

From The New Yorker

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

Pymalion by George Bernard Shaw is a classic comedy in which a well-known phonetician places a bet that he can transform a flower girl into a 'true lady' in a mere couple of months.

From The Guardian

This fact, familiar to phoneticians but disbelieved by others, is one of the first peculiarities noted by foreigners beginning to learn English.

From Project Gutenberg