tonologist

plural tonologists

1. A linguist who studies tone.

   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

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   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, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2

   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 Acquisition; 08), Munich: Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 176

   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 Temple, editors, Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 307