Tonologist
//tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A linguist who studies tone.
"Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations."
Example
More examples"Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations."
Etymology
From tonology + -ist.
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