Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in linguistics and related occupations]
8. linguists

Anotations

Scope note:

Specialists in phonetics, the study of the production, transmission, perception, classification, and physical or acoustical properties of speech sounds and how they are organized in language. For specialists in the study of the sound patterns and systems of languages, use "phonologists."