tonologist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst/
- Hyphenation: ton‧o‧lo‧gist
Noun[edit]
tonologist (plural tonologists)
- A linguist who studies tone.
- 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:
- 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, 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, 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’.