"tonologist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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, page 2",
          "text": "Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.",
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          "ref": "2001, Larry M. Hyman, “Fieldwork as a State of Mind”, in Paul Newman, Martha Ratliff, editors, Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 31",
          "text": "The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.",
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          "ref": "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, page 176",
          "text": "The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].",
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          "text": "Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.",
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        "A linguist who studies tone."
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