phonologist
/fəˈnɑlədʒɪst/
noun
- A person who studies the sounds of human speech, especially the patterns and rules of how sounds are used in languages.
- The phonologist explained why English speakers often drop the 'g' in words like 'running'.
- As a phonologist, she spent years documenting the unique click sounds of the Xhosa language.
- Our guest speaker, a well-known phonologist, showed how children learn to distinguish between similar sounds.