Definition of "dialectologist" []

• A person who studies regional differences in speech sounds. (noun)

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• "The research is by perceptual dialectologist Dennis Preston."
• "But, what you might call the "strong" versions of Polish dialects have mostly died out after WWII leaving "lite" versions (mainstream Polish with some regional features still hanging on) in their place and these continue to give way to standard Polish (I think being a modern Polish dialectologist is the linguistic equivalent of the Maytag Repairman)."
• "Unless, of course, some skilled dialectologist in the KGB concocted the file in order to place Hanssen in our hands as a grand dangle, but that is what spookspeak calls sickthink ."