tonologist

noun

1. A linguist who studies tone.

   “Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.”

   “The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.”

   “The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].”

   “Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.”