Accentologist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who studies accentology.

    "An important point in Kuryłowicz's Balto-Slavic accentology was his rejection of Saussure's Law in Slavic, a view which was accepted by Stang and, subsequently, by most accentologists of the last half of the twentieth century."

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"An important point in Kuryłowicz's Balto-Slavic accentology was his rejection of Saussure's Law in Slavic, a view which was accepted by Stang and, subsequently, by most accentologists of the last half of the twentieth century."

Etymology

From accent + -ologist.

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