PHONOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A specialist in phonology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("phonologist" is a kind of...):

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phonologist"):

orthoepist (a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely))

Derivation:

phonology (the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes)

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