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tonologist

Syllables: ton·o·lo·gistUK/tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst/

tonologist noun: a linguist who studies tone.

Noun

tonologist (plural tonologists)

  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.1993, Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, “Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register”, in Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register...
    • The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.2001, Larry M. Hyman, “Fieldwork as a State of Mind”, in Paul Newman, Martha Ratliff, editors, Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31

Examples of tonologist in a sentence

  • The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].2002, Esther Yuk Wah Lai, Prosody and Prosodic Transfer in Foreign Language Acquisition: Cantonese and Japanese (LINCOM Studies in Language...
  • Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.2004, Katrina Hayward, Justin Watkins, Akin Oyètádé, “The Phonetic Interpretation of Register”, in John Local, Richard Ogden, Rosalind...

Forms of tonologist

pluraltonologists

Origin of tonologist

From tonology + -ist.

Questions about tonologist

What does tonologist mean?
Tonologist means a linguist who studies tone.
How do you use tonologist in a sentence?
The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].
What part of speech is tonologist?
Tonologist is a noun.
How do you pronounce tonologist?
Tonologist is pronounced /tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst/ (UK).
What is the plural of tonologist?
The plural of tonologist is tonologists.

Words near tonologist in the dictionary

  1. tonography
  2. tonoi
  3. tonological
  4. tonologically
  5. tonologies
  6. tonologist
  7. tonologists
  8. tonology
  9. tonometer
  10. tonometers
  11. tonometric

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