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PHONOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specialist in phonology
Classified under:
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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