Meaning of tonologist | Babel Free

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A linguist who studies tone.

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.”

“The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.”

“The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view⟳ Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].”

“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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