Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.
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Tonologist
//tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst//
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The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.
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The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].
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Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.
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