tonologist

tonology +‎ -ist.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst/
• Hyphenation: ton‧o‧lo‧gist

tonologist (plural tonologists)

1. A linguist who studies tone.
   • 1993, Keith Snider; Harry van der Hulst, “Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register”, in Keith Snider and Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2:

     Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.

   • 2001, Larry M. Hyman, “Fieldwork as a State of Mind”, in Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, editors, Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31:

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

   • 2002, Esther Yuk Wah Lai, Prosody and Prosodic Transfer in Foreign Language Acquisition: Cantonese and Japanese (LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition; 08), Munich: Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 176:

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

   • 2004, Katrina Hayward; Justin Watkins; Akin Oyètádé, “The Phonetic Interpretation of Register”, in John Local, Richard Ogden, and Rosalind Temple, editors, Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 307:

     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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