I'm also oversimplifying, but that's okay, because I'm not a phonologist or a phonetician. |
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It was written about 60 years ago, by an English phonetician, especially to bring out differences in dialects. |
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As every phonetician knows, they are produced with the centre and front of the tongue. |
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I first trained as an English teacher, then as a linguist and phonetician, and finally took my doctorate in cognitive and social psychology. |
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It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its antiheroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. |
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Mr. Bokhari is also an expert phonetician. |
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But a recently recounted anecdote from Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania, on his Language Log blog, suggests some people are extending it more figuratively. |
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Variation of this kind, though it is generally less obvious and would normally pass unnoticed, is often clear enough to the trained phonetician and is measurable instrumentally. |
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