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accentologist

accentologist noun: one who studies accentology.

Noun

accentologist (plural accentologists)

  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.2009, Thomas Olander, Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility, page 29

Forms of accentologist

pluralaccentologists

Origin of accentologist

From accent + -ologist.

Questions about accentologist

What does accentologist mean?
Accentologist means one who studies accentology.
What part of speech is accentologist?
Accentologist is a noun.
What is the plural of accentologist?
The plural of accentologist is accentologists.

Words near accentologist in the dictionary

  1. accentmark
  2. accentmarks
  3. accentologic
  4. accentological
  5. accentologically
  6. accentologist
  7. accentologists
  8. accentology
  9. accentor
  10. accentors
  11. accents

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